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The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator, in 1569. It became the standard map projection for nautical purposes b...
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Because the Mercator distorts size so much at the poles it is common to crop Antarctica off the map. This practice results in the Northern Hemisphere appearing much larger than it really is.
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-- The Mercator projection was developed in 1569 by Gerardus Mercator as a navigation tool. Like the Peters map, the grid is rectangular and lines of latitude and longitude are all parallel. The Mercator map was designed as an aid to naviga...
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The principle of the Mercator map is illustrated at the left. Two areas between two meridians are shown, one at the equator and the other at a high latitude. The equatorial area is chosen to be square, with sides represented by unity.
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Mercator map projection was invented by Gerardus Mercator as a navigation tool ... Gerardus Mercator; The map projection that bears his name he first used in 1569. He is also the first to use the term 'atlas' for a collection of maps.
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The projection avoids the scale exaggerations of the Mercator map. ... Once used to map Landsat images (now replaced by the Space Oblique Mercator), this projection is used for areas that are long, thin zones at a diagonal with respect to north, such as Alaska State Plane Zone 5001.
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More on Mercator map projection from Infoplease: ... Related content from HighBeam Research on: Mercator map projection ... Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection.(Book review) (The Geographical Review)
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More on Mercator map projection from Infoplease: ... Mercator map projection: see map projection. ... Related content from HighBeam Research on: Mercator map projection...
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Mercator map projection – Facts about Mercator map projection, pictures, video, and Mercator map projection information at Encyclopedia.com: a free, credible collection of encyclopedias. ... Mercator map projection see map projection .
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