The transverse Mercator map projection (TM, TMP) is an adaptation of the standard Mercator projection. The transverse version is widely used in national...

The Mercator projection (/mərˈkeɪtər/) is a conformal cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in...

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

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

map projection. Each projected coordinate system, such as "Universal Transverse Mercator WGS 84 Zone 26N," is defined by a choice of map projection (with...

constant. These are some conformal projections: Mercator: Rhumb lines are represented by straight segments Transverse Mercator Stereographic: Any circle of...

drawn as a straight line on the map.) Transverse Mercator projection Gauss–Krüger coordinate system (This projection preserves lengths on the central meridian...

Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system. MTM uses a transverse Mercator projection with zones spaced 3° of longitude apart. The coordinate system...

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...

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...

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

Nevertheless, the use of the Cassini projection has largely been superseded by the transverse Mercator projection, at least with central mapping agencies...

State University provides the following parameters for the projection: Jordan Transverse Mercator Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_International_1924 Datum:...

Transverse Mercator projection has many implementations. Louis Krüger in 1912 developed one of his two implementations that expressed as a power series...

meridian, measured on the Transverse Mercator projection N = distance north of the equator, measured on the Transverse Mercator projection ε = 2 r − 1 ( r − 1...

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...

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

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

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...

The transverse Mercator projection with Tissot's indicatrices The stereographic projection with Tissot's indicatrices The sinusoidal projection with...

systems having moved onto conformal projection systems, typically modeled on the transverse Mercator projection. The rectangular polyconic has one specifiable...

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...

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...

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...

country (projected to the Airy ellipsoid then flattened using the Transverse Mercator projection), or as the point farthest from the boundary of the country...

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

instance of a stereographic projection of the Earth's surface. Its popularity in cartography increased after Rumold Mercator used its equatorial aspect...

developed improved methods for calculating the transverse Mercator projection; developed a conformal projection of the Pacific Ocean minimising scale errors;...

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...

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