On Mercator Map Projection?
Mercator Projection, Type of Map Projection Introduced in 1569 by Gerardus Mercator Gerardus Mercator Mercator Was One of the Pioneers of Cartography and Is...
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Why is Mercator projection used?
In 1569, Mercator published his epic world map. This map, with its Mercator projection, was designed to help sailors navigate around the globe. They could use latitude and longitude lines to plot a straight route. Mercator's projection laid out the globe as a flattened version of a cylinder.
What property of maps does the Mercator projection distort?
Although the linear scale is equal in all directions around any point, thus preserving the angles and the shapes of small objects, the Mercator projection distorts the size of objects as the latitude increases from the equator to the poles, where the scale becomes infinite.
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