The Mercator projection (/mərˈkeɪtər/) is a conformal cylindrical map projection first presented by Flemish geographer and mapmaker 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 Mercator projection. The transverse version is widely used in national...

a superior alternative to the commonly used Mercator projection, on the basis that the Mercator projection greatly distorts the relative sizes of regions...

sphere or ellipsoid. The most well-known map projection is the Mercator projection.: 45  This map projection has the property of being conformal. However...

The Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) is a map projection system for assigning coordinates to locations on the surface of the Earth. Like the traditional...

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

The oblique Mercator map projection is an adaptation of the standard Mercator projection. The oblique version is sometimes used in national mapping systems...

circle, as it does on an east–west passage along the equator. On a Mercator projection map, any rhumb line is a straight line; a rhumb line can be drawn...

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

formulae for the Mercator projections may be found in The Mercator Projections. Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections, John P. Snyder...

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 While the map's geography has been superseded by modern knowledge, its projection proved to be one of the...

The Miller cylindrical projection is a modified Mercator projection, proposed by Osborn Maitland Miller in 1942. The latitude is scaled by a factor of...

Mercator (Latin for "merchant") often refers to the Mercator projection, a cartographic projection named after its inventor, Gerardus Mercator. Mercator...

Perhaps the best-known projection is the Mercator Projection, originally designed as a nautical chart. Mercator projection (showing between 82°S and...

It largely preserves the familiar shapes of the Mercator projection while modestly reducing Mercator's distortion. Polar regions are subject to extreme...

parallels (as red lines) on the commonly used Mercator projection and the Transverse Mercator projection. On the former the parallels are horizontal and...

inspired by the Dymaxion map. The projection does not have some of the major distortions of the Mercator projection, like the expansion of countries in...

illustration of projection, rather than for practical maps. Its vertical stretching is even greater than that of the Mercator projection, whose construction...

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

projection Gall–Peters projection (mentions a resolution rejecting the use of all rectangular world maps) List of map projections Mercator projection...

cylindric projection and its virtues, specifically disparaging Mercator's projection.) Weisstein, Eric W. "Cylindrical Equal-Area Projection." From MathWorld—A...

Space-oblique Mercator projection is a map projection devised in the 1970s for preparing maps from Earth-survey satellite data. It is a generalization...

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...

distribution of phenomena. The projection was developed in 1923 by John Paul Goode to provide an alternative to the Mercator projection for portraying global areal...

phenomena. The projection was developed in 1929 by Samuel Whittemore Boggs (1889–1954) to provide an alternative to the Mercator projection for portraying...

sinusoidal projection is a pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection, sometimes called the Sanson–Flamsteed or the Mercator equal-area projection. Jean Cossin...

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...

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

military projection A variation of military projection is used in the video game SimCity Space-oblique Mercator projection Oblique Mercator projection Hatsusaburō...