Physical Map of Sonoma County

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Physical map illustrates the mountains, lowlands, oceans, lakes and rivers and other physical landscape features of Sonoma County. Differences in land elevations relative to the sea level are represented by color.

Green color represents lower elevations, orange or brown indicate higher elevations, shades of grey are used for the highest mountain ranges in the world. Underwater topography is represented by blues. Darker blues are used for the deepest water, lighter shades of blue represent shallower water such as the continental shelf.

A map projection is a way how to transform points on a Earth to points on a map. This map of Sonoma County uses Plate Carree projection. The Plate Carree projection is a simple cylindrical projection originated in the ancient times. It has straight and equally spaced meridians and parallels that meet at right angles.

All projections from a sphere to a plane are distorted. The drawback of the Plate Carree projection is that it doesn't make an attempt to compensate for these distortions. For the general view of Sonoma County, this is not a significant problem. The detailed maps use the Mercator projection which preserves the shape of small areas better.