Laborde

The Laborde Projection is an Oblique Mercator projection that is primarily used in Madagascar. It is a cylindrical, conformal map projection similar to the Mercator system, except the cylinder is wrapped around the sphere so that it touches the surface along the great circle path at a chosen azimuth from the centerline. It was adopted for use in the Madagascar grid system in 1926.

The "Laborde" projection has the following parameters:

  • False Northing

  • False Easting

  • Origin Latitude

  • Origin Longitude (centerline)

  • Scale Factor

  • Azimuth