The Mercator projection (/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...

ellipsoid) Oblique Mercator projection Space-oblique Mercator projection (a modified projection from Oblique Mercator projection for satellite orbits with...

Gerardus Mercator (/dʒɪˈrɑːrdəs mɜːrˈkeɪtər/; 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer. He is most renowned...

map, characterizes the Mercator projection. While the map's geography has been superseded by modern knowledge, its projection proved to be one of the...

stereographic projection. List of map projections E. Guyou (1887) "Nouveau système de projection de la sphère: Généralisation de la projection de Mercator", Annales...

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...

gnomonic projection, also known as a central projection or rectilinear projection, is a perspective projection of a sphere, with center of projection at the...

Nevertheless, the use of the Cassini projection has largely been superseded by the transverse Mercator projection, at least with central mapping agencies...

This is a summary of map projections that have articles of their own on Wikipedia or that are otherwise notable. Because there is no limit to the number...

by Gualterius Lud was in stereographic projection, as were later the maps of Jean Roze (1542), Rumold Mercator (1595), and many others. In star charts...

over other projections for world maps. It has less distortion of relative size of areas, most notably when compared to the Mercator projection; and less...

système de projection de la sphère: Généralisation de la projection de Mercator" [New sphere projection system: Generalization of the Mercator projection]....

The Equal Earth map projection is an equal-area pseudocylindrical global map projection, invented by Bojan Šavrič, Bernhard Jenny, and Tom Patterson in...

of exploration in marine navigation. Since the invention of the Mercator projection c. 1600, the term rhumb line (or loxodrome) has been redefined to...

(1887). "Nouveau système de projection de la sphère: Généralisation de la projection de Mercator" [New system of projection of the sphere]. Annales Hydrographiques...

used by the Global Positioning System among others. EPSG:3857 - Web Mercator projection used for display by many web-based mapping tools, including Google...

5 {\displaystyle \cos(60^{\circ })=0.5} . On the Mercator projection or on the Gall-Peters projection, a circle of latitude is perpendicular to all meridians...

Gerardus Mercator world map of 1569 introduced a cylindrical map projection that became the standard map projection known as the Mercator projection. It was...

The Bottomley map projection is a pseudoconical equal area map projection defined as: x = ρ sin ⁡ E sin ⁡ φ 1 , y = π 2 − ρ cos ⁡ E {\displaystyle x={\frac...

for want of a better. The Mercator projection is now used on the vast majority of nautical charts. Since the Mercator projection is conformal, that is, bearings...

modern concept used in computing. Matrix logarithm Mel scale Mercator projection Mercator series Moment magnitude scale John Napier Napierian logarithm...

map projections epsg.org "décret du 26 décembre 2000". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 27 December 2017. "Définition précise de la projection Lambert93...

(2001). Geodesy (3rd ed.). De Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-017072-8. Osborne, Peter (2013). "Chapters 5,6". The Mercator Projections. doi:10.5281/zenodo.35392....

the Bonne projection is intermediate between the two. In 1569, mapmaker Gerardus Mercator first published a map based on his Mercator projection, which uses...

of the Mercator projection known as the Web Mercator. Other mapping projections include the Peters and Robinson projection. The Peters projection attempts...

which for the first time explained the mathematical basis of the Mercator projection by building on the works of Pedro Nunes, and set out a reference...

print, the first made by an Englishman, and the first to use the Mercator projection. The work was first published in Italian at Florence in 1645 and...

The two-point equidistant projection or doubly equidistant projection is a map projection first described by Hans Maurer in 1919 and Charles Close in...

The Bonne projection is a pseudoconical equal-area map projection, sometimes called a dépôt de la guerre,: 104  modified Flamsteed,: 104  or a Sylvanus...