• Thumbnail for Transverse Mercator projection
    The transverse Mercator map projection (TM, TMP) is an adaptation of the standard Mercator projection. The transverse version is widely used in national...
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    The Mercator projection (/mərˈkeɪtər/) is a conformal cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in...
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  • Thumbnail for Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system
    The Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) is a map projection system for assigning coordinates to locations on the surface of the Earth. Like the traditional...
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    constant. These are some conformal projections: Mercator: Rhumb lines are represented by straight segments Transverse Mercator Stereographic: Any circle of...
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    map projection. Each projected coordinate system, such as "Universal Transverse Mercator WGS 84 Zone 26N," is defined by a choice of map projection (with...
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  • Thumbnail for Irish Transverse Mercator
    Northern Ireland (OSNI) in 2001. The name is derived from the Transverse Mercator projection it uses and the fact that it is optimised for the island of...
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  • Transverse Mercator projection has many implementations. Louis Krüger in 1912 developed one of his two implementations that expressed as a power series...
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  • Thumbnail for Oblique Mercator projection
    The oblique Mercator map projection is an adaptation of the standard Mercator projection. The oblique version is sometimes used in national mapping systems...
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  • Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system. MTM uses a transverse Mercator projection with zones spaced 3° of longitude apart. The coordinate system...
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  • drawn as a straight line on the map.) Transverse Mercator projection Gauss–Krüger coordinate system (This projection preserves lengths on the central meridian...
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  • Thumbnail for Israeli Transverse Mercator
    coordinate system for Israel. The name is derived from the transverse Mercator projection it uses and the fact that it is optimized for Israel. ITM has...
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  • meridian, measured on the Transverse Mercator projection N = distance north of the equator, measured on the Transverse Mercator projection ε=2r−1(r−1)2=a2−b2(b2){\displaystyle...
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    parallels (as red lines) on the commonly used Mercator projection and the Transverse Mercator projection. On the former the parallels are horizontal and...
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  • Thumbnail for Gall–Peters projection
    a superior alternative to the commonly used Mercator projection, on the basis that the Mercator projection greatly distorts the relative sizes of regions...
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  • based on either a transverse Mercator projection or a Lambert conformal conic projection. The choice between the two map projections is based on the shape...
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  • Thumbnail for Cassini projection
    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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  • Thumbnail for Space-oblique Mercator projection
    Space-oblique Mercator projection is a map projection devised in the 1970s for preparing maps from Earth-survey satellite data. It is a generalization...
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  • Thumbnail for Rectangular polyconic projection
    systems having moved onto conformal projection systems, typically modeled on the transverse Mercator projection. The rectangular polyconic has one specifiable...
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    Tissot's indicatrix (category Map projections)
    The transverse Mercator projection with Tissot's indicatrices The stereographic projection with Tissot's indicatrices The sinusoidal projection with...
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  • Thumbnail for AuthaGraph projection
    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...
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  • Thumbnail for Palestine grid
    similar to the Palestine Grid but used the transverse Mercator projection. The difference between the two projections was only a few metres. After the establishment...
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  • Thumbnail for Ordnance Survey National Grid
    and to be slightly less flattened). The British maps adopt a transverse Mercator projection with an origin (the "true" origin) at 49° N, 2° W (an offshore...
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    prompted the development of the transverse Mercator projections in which a meridian is treated 'like an equator' of the projection so that we obtain an accurate...
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    country (projected to the Airy ellipsoid then flattened using the Transverse Mercator projection), or as the point farthest from the boundary of the country...
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  • Thumbnail for Stereographic map projection
    instance of a stereographic projection of the Earth's surface. Its popularity in cartography increased after Rumold Mercator used its equatorial aspect...
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  • Thumbnail for Jordan Transverse Mercator
    State University provides the following parameters for the projection: Jordan Transverse Mercator Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_International_1924 Datum:...
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  • Thumbnail for Winkel tripel projection
    The Winkel tripel projection (Winkel III), a modified azimuthal map projection of the world, is one of three projections proposed by German cartographer...
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    example, "Universal Transverse Mercator WGS 84 Zone 16N") comprises a choice of Earth ellipsoid, horizontal datum, map projection (except in the geographic...
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  • Thumbnail for Johann Heinrich Lambert
    any of his projections but they are now known as: Lambert conformal conic Transverse Mercator Lambert azimuthal equal area Lagrange projection Lambert cylindrical...
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  • Thumbnail for Peirce quincuncial projection
    proposed by Émile Guyou in 1887, and a transverse aspect was proposed by Oscar Adams in 1925. The projection has seen use in digital photography for...
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