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Albers equal-area projection calculator

The Albers equal-area conic projection is the workhorse map projection for thematic maps of countries, states, and continents when area ratios must stay truthful.

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Cartographers, GIS students, and data journalists choose Albers whenever choropleth coloring or density comparisons would be distorted by Web Mercator or other conformal planes. This calculator accepts a geographic latitude and longitude together with two required standard parallels, optional central meridian and latitude of origin, and an optional sphere radius, then returns projected X and Y along with the intermediate cone constant n, the constant C, and the polar radii ρ and ρ0 from the classical spherical Albers formulas. Results are fully deterministic with no network calls, no sampling, and no date-dependent shortcuts. Use the free browser path for homework checks and basemap sanity tests, or call the API at $0.002 per successful request when automated pipelines need reproducible equal-area fixtures for CI, rendering, or teaching demos that must not invent ad-hoc projection constants.

How to use it

Enter your values in the form above. The tool checks them before calculating and shows the result on the same page.

Check your inputs

Use the labels and units shown next to each field. If something is missing or outside the allowed range, the page points to the field to fix.

Use it again or automate it

Use the browser tool for individual checks and the API when you need the same capability in an automated workflow.

What you can do with it

Get an answer now

Enter one set of values and see the result without building a spreadsheet or script.

Compare scenarios

Change one value at a time and rerun the calculation to understand what affects the result.

Automate repeated work

Use the API when the same calculation needs to run inside your product or workflow.

FAQ

How do I use this capability?

Complete the fields above and run it on this page. The form highlights anything that needs attention.

For developers — API access

Everything on this page is available programmatically. This section is for teams who want to wire it into their own systems; everyone else can just use the tool above.

API endpoint

POSThttps://api.kit.forhosting.com/geo/albers-equal-area

Prefer to automate it? One authenticated POST creates the task; the result comes back by webhook or a signed link. The same capability also runs here on the web, by email and from Telegram — and soon from our app too.

Call it from your stack

curl -X POST https://api.kit.forhosting.com/geo/albers-equal-area \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KIT_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"latitude":38.9072,"longitude":-77.0369,"standard_parallel_1":29.5,"standard_parallel_2":45.5}'

const res = await fetch("https://api.kit.forhosting.com/geo/albers-equal-area", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": `Bearer ${process.env.KIT_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "latitude": 38.9072,
    "longitude": -77.0369,
    "standard_parallel_1": 29.5,
    "standard_parallel_2": 45.5
  })
});
const { task_id } = await res.json();

import os, requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://api.kit.forhosting.com/geo/albers-equal-area",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['KIT_KEY']}"},
    json={
    "latitude": 38.9072,
    "longitude": -77.0369,
    "standard_parallel_1": 29.5,
    "standard_parallel_2": 45.5
},
)
task_id = res.json()["task_id"]

<?php
$res = file_get_contents("https://api.kit.forhosting.com/geo/albers-equal-area", false, stream_context_create([
  "http" => [
    "method"  => "POST",
    "header"  => "Authorization: Bearer " . getenv("KIT_KEY") . "\r\nContent-Type: application/json",
    "content" => '{"latitude":38.9072,"longitude":-77.0369,"standard_parallel_1":29.5,"standard_parallel_2":45.5}',
  ],
]));
$task = json_decode($res, true);

body := bytes.NewBufferString(`{"latitude":38.9072,"longitude":-77.0369,"standard_parallel_1":29.5,"standard_parallel_2":45.5}`)
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.kit.forhosting.com/geo/albers-equal-area", body)
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("KIT_KEY"))
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

Example request

{
  "latitude": 38.9072,
  "longitude": -77.0369,
  "standard_parallel_1": 29.5,
  "standard_parallel_2": 45.5
}

Example response

{
  "task_id": "tsk_a1b2c3d4e5f6a1b2c3d4e5f6",
  "type": "geo.albers_equal_area",
  "status": "queued",
  "_links": {
    "result": "/tasks/tsk_…/result"
  }
}

The API is asynchronous: the call returns a task_id immediately and the result arrives by webhook. Polling is capped at 1 req/s per task.

Pricing

Per request$0.002

Published price — no tokens, no invented credits. A failed task is never charged.

Errors

HTTP	Code	Meaning
`401`	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid API key.
`402`	`insufficient_balance`	Your balance doesn't cover the task price.
`404`	`unknown_type`	That task type doesn't exist.
`429`	`rate_limited`	Too many requests. Use the webhook instead of polling.

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