Implements the Albers projection. The Albers projection is most commonly used to project the United States of America. It gives the northern border with Canada a curved appearance.
The Albers Equal Area projection has the property that the area bounded by any pair of parallels and meridians is exactly reproduced between the image of those parallels and meridians in the projected domain, that is, the projection preserves the correct area of the earth though distorts direction, distance and shape somewhat.