Oblique aspect
Placing the cylinder so that its tangent or secants are not aligned with the equator or a meridian results in an oblique aspect. This causes meridians and parallels to be represented as complex curved lines. As with other cylinder map projections, it lacks distortion only along the its tangent or secants and scale is preserved only along the same lines.
An oblique cylindrical projection. Less than half of the actual map projection is displayed here.
As with the
transverse cylindrical map projection, the oblique cylindrical map projection
wraps around the earth using a great circle other than the equator and only one
hemisphere is usually displayed. In addition, it too must be truncated or
mathematically terminated at a specified distance along a line that is at a
right angle to its tangent or secants.
Oblique
aspect cylindrical projections are used primarily for mapping regions with a
relative oblique orientation, such as