Mercator projection
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mercator-projection-204-11853700
title:
Mercator projection
text:
The Mercator projection is a conformal cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It became the standard map projection for navigation due to its ability to represent north as "up" and south as "down" everywhere while preserving local directions and shapes. However, as a result, the Mercator projection inflates the size of objects the further they are from the equator. In a Mercator projection, landmasses such as Greenland and Antarctic
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Cylindrical conformal map projection
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection
date created:
2001-12-17T20:54:13Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T23:25:25Z
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13
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