Political Cartography
Seems like I remember that there was once an attack on the ubiquitous Mercator Projection maps of the world for exaggerating the size (and thus the importance?) of the global north at the expense of the global south.
Does this Mercator Projection make me look fat?
This Mercator Projection makes my ass look huge. And you already know about longitude I don't see any horizontal-striped shirts in your damn closet. Some giveback latitude is supposed to be. Urrnk! Sorry, wrong answer!
I’ve got your Mercator projection right here!
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RE: Mercator projection starter maps :: Graphics
Author: Paul Anderson Subject: Mercator projection starter mapsPosted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:34 pm (GMT -6) - Hi All, Just a note to let you know that I have moved my Map Projection graphics web site away from Illinois State University.
Happy anniversary
In 1569 he created the first Mercator projection: a wall map of the world on 18 separate sheets entitled: “New and more complete representation of the terrestrial globe properly adapted for its use in navigation”.
Mercator projection starter maps and other great links for graphics
Mercator projection starter maps and other great links for graphics
RE: Mercator projection starter maps :: Graphics
Author: wrand Subject: Re: Mercator projection starter mapsPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:59 pm (GMT -6) Rick Metzroth wrote: Even better, anyone have a starter map from this projection you could share? A quick way to start is to grab one
RE: Mercator projection starter maps :: Graphics
Author: scavendish Subject: Re: Best map site I've foundPosted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:26 pm (GMT -6) jjackson wrote: Bar none http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ Abso-freakin-lutely. The Army topo maps of North Korea are some of the
RE: Mercator projection starter maps :: Graphics
Author: Chris Morris Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:23 pm (GMT -6) The following link is from a site that has amazing images, created by a professor at Northridge. I've gotten to know him after coming across one of his images when looking
RE: Mercator projection starter maps :: Graphics
Author: jjackson Subject: Best map site I've foundPosted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:31 pm (GMT -6) Bar none http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/» Read this post

Mercator projection; Cylindrical; Conformal; Gerardus Mercator; 1569
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Mercator projection -- Encyclopædia Britannica
Mercator projection type of map projection introduced in 1569 by Gerardus Mercator. It is often described as a cylindrical projection, but it must be
Peters Projection@Everything2.com
For those who grew up with the Mercator map, the Peters projection map appears to If Peters had said "The Mercator projection isn't being used for the
USGS Learning Web :: Lesson Plans :: Exploring Maps :: Lessons
Latitudes 90°N and 90°S cannot be shown on a Mercator projection, On the Mercator projection, longitude lines are parallel and equally spaced,
Mercator projection: Definition and Much More from Answers.com
(Click to enlarge) Mercator projection (Jerry Malone) Mercator projection n. A cylindrical map projection in which the meridians and parallels of.
Map Projections: Navigators and Radio Operators
The only conformal cylindrical projection, Mercator's device was a boon to navigators The best known use of the verse Mercator projection is the
Cylindrical Projection -- from Wolfram MathWorld
The cylindrical projection of the Earth is illustrated above. 5). For example, the common Mercator projection uses the complicated formation
Mercator Projection -- 3DSoftware.com
The Mercator is a special purpose map projection that is used for navigation. A straight line on a Mercator projection will always intersect longitude
OMC: supported projections
The Mercator projection has been used extensively for world maps im which the distortion towards the polar regions grows rather large, thus incorrectly
The Universal Transverse Mercator System
Such a projection is called a Transverse Mercator projection (shown at left). Because the Transverse Mercator projection is very accurate in narrow mercator+projection: mercator+projection