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Several interesting modifications of the simple polyconic projection have been proposed. These modifications are primarily designed to reduce the exaggeration of scale along the meridians near the edges of the graticule so that it may be used as a world map. All the modified projections have arbitrary properties.
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D.H. MALING (1960) studied this question.
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