Mercator projection of the world between 85°S and 85°N. Note the size comparison of Greenland and Africa.The Mercator projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation.Mercator 1569 world map (Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata) showing latitudes 66°S to 80°N.
The Mercator projection (/mərˈkeɪtər/) is a conformal cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It became the standard map projection for navigation due to its ability to represent north as 'up' and south as 'down' everywhere while preserving local directions and shapes. However, as a result, the Mercator projection inflates the size of objects the further they are from the equator. In a Mercator projection, landmasses such as Greenland and Antarctica appear far larger than they actually are relative to landmasses near the equator. Despite these drawbacks, the Mercator projection is well-suited to marine navigation and internet web maps and continues to be widely used today.[1]
The Mercatorprojection (/mərˈkeɪtər/) is a conformal cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in...
Web Mercator, Google Web Mercator, Spherical Mercator, WGS 84 Web Mercator or WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator is a variant of the Mercator map projection and is...
The transverse Mercator map projection (TM, TMP) is an adaptation of the standard Mercatorprojection. The transverse version is widely used in national...
projection is any method of flattening a continuous curved surface onto a plane.[citation needed] The most well-known map projection is the Mercator projection...
Gerardus Mercator (/dʒɪˈrɑːrdəs mɜːrˈkeɪtər/; 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer. He is most renowned...
The Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) is a map projection system for assigning coordinates to locations on the surface of the Earth. Like the traditional...
The oblique Mercator map projection is an adaptation of the standard Mercatorprojection. The oblique version is sometimes used in national mapping systems...
map, characterizes the Mercatorprojection. While the map's geography has been superseded by modern knowledge, its projection proved to be one of the...
inspired by the Dymaxion map. The projection does not have some of the major distortions of the Mercatorprojection, like the expansion of countries in...
circle, as it does on an east–west passage along the equator. On a Mercatorprojection map, any rhumb line is a straight line; a rhumb line can be drawn...
The Miller cylindrical projection is a modified Mercatorprojection, proposed by Osborn Maitland Miller in 1942. The latitude is scaled by a factor of...
illustration of projection, rather than for practical maps. Its vertical stretching is even greater than that of the Mercatorprojection, whose construction...
It largely preserves the familiar shapes of the Mercatorprojection while modestly reducing Mercator's distortion. Polar regions are subject to extreme...
an oblique projection in order to distinguish the aberrant subclavian artery Space-oblique Mercatorprojection Oblique Mercatorprojection Hatsusaburō...
parallels (as red lines) on the commonly used Mercatorprojection and the Transverse Mercatorprojection. On the former the parallels are horizontal and...
distribution of phenomena. The projection was developed in 1923 by John Paul Goode to provide an alternative to the Mercatorprojection for portraying global areal...
The Winkel tripel projection (Winkel III), a modified azimuthal map projection of the world, is one of three projections proposed by German cartographer...
sinusoidal projection is a pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection, sometimes called the Sanson–Flamsteed or the Mercator equal-area projection. Jean Cossin...
of the Mercatorprojection known as the Web Mercator. Other mapping projections include the Peters and Robinson projection. The Peters projection attempts...
map projection. Each projected coordinate system, such as "Universal Transverse Mercator WGS 84 Zone 26N," is defined by a choice of map projection (with...
5 {\displaystyle \cos(60^{\circ })=0.5} . On the Mercatorprojection or on the Gall-Peters projection, a circle of latitude is perpendicular to all meridians...
the Bonne projection is intermediate between the two. In 1569, mapmaker Gerardus Mercator first published a map based on his Mercatorprojection, which uses...
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