Assertion: conic projection's parallel | /r/HasProperty | 40 degrees
Facets:
value: from the map equator
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Since the projection is a transverse case of the conic conformal, it is not too horribly sophisticated mathematically (compared with map projections such as the developments of August's Conformal Projection of the Sphere on a Two-Cusped Epicycloid, to be seen later); the standard parallel for each conic projection is 40 degrees from the map equator (that being the two parallels of 20 degrees West longitude and 160 degrees East longitude) and so areas are kept from being distorted too heavily, and the map is conformal, so all the shapes "look" right.