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      8 hours ago

      The projection is the mathematical transformation from the curved surface of the Earth to a mathematical surface. You can have types of projections based on the mathematical surface (conical, cylindrical…), or based on the features they want to rescue from this transformation (conformal, equal-area…), but, sorry, I’ve never heard of a classification based on these “slices”. Moreover, now that I think of it, even those projections we are familiar with have to be cut somewhere.

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          7 hours ago

          No, I know what you mean but that looks like some azimuthal projections put together in some conventional way. Maybe the concept you are looking for is a “composite” projection?