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  1. Mercator projection - Wikipedia

    • The Mercator projection is a conformal cylindrical map projection first presented by Flemish geographer and mapmaker Gerardus Mercator in 1569. In the 18th century, it became the standard map projection for navigation due to its property of representing rhumb lines as straight lines. When applied to world maps, the Mercator projection inflates the size of lands the f… See more

    History

    Joseph Needham, a historian of China, speculated that some star charts of the Chinese Song dynasty may have … See more

    Properties

    The Mercator projection can be visualized as the result of wrapping a cylinder tightly around a sphere, with the two surfaces tangent to (touching) each other along a circle halfway between the poles of their common ax… See more

    Distortion of sizes

    As with all map projections, the shapes or sizes are distortions of the true layout of the Earth's surface. The Mercator projection exaggerates areas far from the equator; the closer to the poles of the Earth, the greater the distortion. … See more

    Uses

    Practically every marine chart in print is based on the Mercator projection due to its uniquely favorable properties for navigation. It is also commonly used by street map services hosted on the Internet, due to its uniquely fa… See more

    Mathematics

    Although the surface of Earth is best modelled by an oblate ellipsoid of revolution, for small scale maps the ellipsoid is approximated by a sphere of radius a, where a is approximately 6,371 km. This spherical a… See more

    See also

    • Cartography
    • Central cylindrical projection – more distorted; sometimes erroneously described as the method of construction of the Mercator projection
    • Conformal map projection… See more

    Bibliography

    • Maling, Derek Hylton (1992), Coordinate Systems and Map Projections (second ed.), Pergamon Press, ISBN 0-08-037233-3.
    • Monmonier, Mark (2004), Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection (Hardcover … See more

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