The Mercator projection (/mərˈkeɪtər/) is a conformal cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in... 42 KB (5,968 words) - 14:36, 13 March 2024 |
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... 15 KB (1,702 words) - 11:03, 26 January 2024 |
a superior alternative to the commonly used Mercator projection, on the basis that the Mercator projection greatly distorts the relative sizes of regions... 19 KB (2,104 words) - 01:50, 27 April 2024 |
Scale (map) (section Mercator projection) formulae for the Mercator projections may be found in The Mercator Projections. Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections, John P. Snyder... 35 KB (5,382 words) - 16:07, 7 March 2024 |
ellipsoid) Oblique Mercator projection Space-oblique Mercator projection (a modified projection from Oblique Mercator projection for satellite orbits with... 11 KB (1,207 words) - 14:35, 23 April 2024 |
Space-oblique Mercator projection is a map projection devised in the 1970s for preparing maps from Earth-survey satellite data. It is a generalization... 4 KB (682 words) - 08:57, 26 July 2023 |
map, characterizes the Mercator projection. While the map's geography has been superseded by modern knowledge, its projection proved to be one of the... 153 KB (6,274 words) - 00:31, 2 March 2024 |
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... 5 KB (509 words) - 16:53, 17 April 2024 |
World map (section Map projections) Perhaps the best-known projection is the Mercator Projection, originally designed as a nautical chart. Mercator projection (showing between 82°S and... 9 KB (834 words) - 03:05, 18 March 2024 |
It largely preserves the familiar shapes of the Mercator projection while modestly reducing Mercator's distortion. Polar regions are subject to extreme... 4 KB (510 words) - 10:45, 30 December 2023 |
The Miller cylindrical projection is a modified Mercator projection, proposed by Osborn Maitland Miller in 1942. The latitude is scaled by a factor of... 3 KB (278 words) - 05:33, 29 January 2023 |
an oblique projection in order to distinguish the aberrant subclavian artery Space-oblique Mercator projection Oblique Mercator projection Hatsusaburō... 13 KB (1,609 words) - 04:05, 16 November 2023 |
The Winkel tripel projection (Winkel III), a modified azimuthal map projection of the world, is one of three projections proposed by German cartographer... 6 KB (593 words) - 06:18, 22 November 2023 |
projection Gall–Peters projection (mentions a resolution rejecting the use of all rectangular world maps) List of map projections Mercator projection... 7 KB (784 words) - 10:16, 18 November 2023 |
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... 17 KB (1,936 words) - 06:03, 29 December 2023 |
parallels (as red lines) on the commonly used Mercator projection and the Transverse Mercator projection. On the former the parallels are horizontal and... 47 KB (6,180 words) - 14:50, 26 April 2024 |
Projected coordinate system (section Projections) map projection. Each projected coordinate system, such as "Universal Transverse Mercator WGS 84 Zone 26N," is defined by a choice of map projection (with... 21 KB (2,802 words) - 02:18, 12 April 2024 |