The first part of the article presents the quality analysis following the most popular world standards used for the description of terrain / sea bottom shape: DTED – Digital Terrain Elevation Data, used by NATO, SRTM model – Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, worked out within the confines of the international mission of the space shuttle Endeavour, DBDB-V – Digital Bathymetric Data Base – Variable Resolution, used for the description of sea and ocean bottoms, NMB – Network Model Bathymetry, as one of the AML – Additional Military Layers for WECDIS – Warship Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems has been shown. The distortion distribution of projected areas shape in a matrix model based on ellipsoidal trapezoids and proposal of new model based on ellipsoidal squares have been presented in the main and final section of the article