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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 because of its ability to represent lines of constant course, known as rhumb lines or loxodromes, as straight segments which conserve the angles with the meridians. While the linear scale is equal in all directions around any point, thus preserving the angles and the shapes of small objects (which makes the projection conformal), the Mercator projection distorts the size and shape of large objects, as the scale increases from the Equator to the poles, where it becomes infinite.
- Related: Cartography, Transverse Mercator projection, Gall–Peters projection, Jordan Transverse Mercator, Nautical chart, Tissot's indicatrix
| Ad maiorem Gerardi Mercatoris gloriam Ad maiorem Gerardi Mercatoris gloriam wilhelmkruecken.de/index.htm - Web |
| Table of examples and properties of all common pro... Table of examples and properties of all common projections www.radicalcartography.net/?projectionref - Web |
| An interactive Java Applet to study the metric def... An interactive Java Applet to study the metric deformations of the Mercator Projection www.uff.br/mapprojections/Mercator_en.html - Web |
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| Mercator's Projection at University of British Col... Mercator's Projection at University of British Columbia www.math.ubc.ca/~israel/m103/mercator/mercator.html - Web |
| Mercator's Projection at Wolfram MathWorld Mercator's Projection at Wolfram MathWorld mathworld.wolfram.com/MercatorProjection.html - Web |
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