The Mercator projection (/mərˈkeɪtər/) is a conformal cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in...
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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...
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ellipsoid) Oblique Mercator projection Space-oblique Mercator projection (a modified projection from Oblique Mercator projection for satellite orbits with...
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Gerardus Mercator (/dʒɪˈrɑːrdəs mɜːrˈkeɪtər/; 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer. He is most renowned...
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map, characterizes the Mercator projection. While the map's geography has been superseded by modern knowledge, its projection proved to be one of the...
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stereographic projection. List of map projections E. Guyou (1887) "Nouveau système de projection de la sphère: Généralisation de la projection de Mercator", Annales...
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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...
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gnomonic projection, also known as a central projection or rectilinear projection, is a perspective projection of a sphere, with center of projection at the...
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Nevertheless, the use of the Cassini projection has largely been superseded by the transverse Mercator projection, at least with central mapping agencies...
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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...
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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...
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Dymaxion map (redirect from Dymaxion projection)
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...
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Spherical conic (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
système de projection de la sphère: Généralisation de la projection de Mercator" [New sphere projection system: Generalization of the Mercator projection]....
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The Equal Earth map projection is an equal-area pseudocylindrical global map projection, invented by Bojan Šavrič, Bernhard Jenny, and Tom Patterson in...
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of exploration in marine navigation. Since the invention of the Mercator projection c. 1600, the term rhumb line (or loxodrome) has been redefined to...
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Lemniscate elliptic functions (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
(1887). "Nouveau système de projection de la sphère: Généralisation de la projection de Mercator" [New system of projection of the sphere]. Annales Hydrographiques...
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used by the Global Positioning System among others. EPSG:3857 - Web Mercator projection used for display by many web-based mapping tools, including Google...
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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...
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Early world maps (section Mercator world map (1569))
Gerardus Mercator world map of 1569 introduced a cylindrical map projection that became the standard map projection known as the Mercator projection. It was...
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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...
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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...
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modern concept used in computing. Matrix logarithm Mel scale Mercator projection Mercator series Moment magnitude scale John Napier Napierian logarithm...
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List of national coordinate reference systems (category Map projections)
map projections epsg.org "décret du 26 décembre 2000". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 27 December 2017. "Définition précise de la projection Lambert93...
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(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....
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the Bonne projection is intermediate between the two. In 1569, mapmaker Gerardus Mercator first published a map based on his Mercator projection, which uses...
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Critical cartography (section Mercator projection)
of the Mercator projection known as the Web Mercator. Other mapping projections include the Peters and Robinson projection. The Peters projection attempts...
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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...
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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...
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The two-point equidistant projection or doubly equidistant projection is a map projection first described by Hans Maurer in 1919 and Charles Close in...
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The Bonne projection is a pseudoconical equal-area map projection, sometimes called a dépôt de la guerre,: 104 modified Flamsteed,: 104 or a Sylvanus...
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