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          <rev user="Dtutic" timestamp="2014-10-31T15:07:33Z" comment="" contentformat="text/x-wiki" contentmodel="wikitext" xml:space="preserve">This is the wiki collaborative editing site for the Commission on Map Projections within the International Cartographic Association. Please see the [[Help:Contents|Help]] page for information about editing the pages on this site.


===Projects underway===

*[[Projection Terminology]] - a multilingual dictionary of map projection terminology.
*[[Projection Names]] - a table of canonical of map projection names.
*[[Projection History]] - a bibliography of map projections appearing in printed maps throughout history.
*[[Projection Bibliography]] - a bibliography of map projections research.</rev>
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