Plotly map projection types

Question

Trying to find a list of the different types of projects available in plotly

Projection types from different sample:

projection = list(type = "equirectangular")
projection = list(type = 'azimuthal equal area'),
projection = dict(type = 'Mercator')

Any online documentation would be helpful

Answer 1

Here's a more comprehensive listing of the world projections:

1. Equirectangular
2. Mercator
3. Orthographic
4. Natural earth
5. Kavrayskiy7
6. Miller
7. Robinson
8. Eckert4
9. Azimuthal equal area
10. Azimuthal equidistant
11. Conic equal area
12. Conic conformal
13. Conic equidistant
14. Gnomonic
15. Stereographic
16. Mollweide
17. Hammer
18. Transverse mercator

This github displays the different projections: http://etpinard.github.io/plotly-dashboards/map-projections/

A list of map projections (with images) is available on Wikipedia.

Answer 2

Here's a dropdown with all of the supported projections:

https://plot.ly/python/dropdowns/