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.
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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”.
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Maps that depict the surface of the Earth also use a projection, a way of lating the three-dimensional real surface of the geoid to a two-dimensional picture. Perhaps the best-known world-map projection is the Mercator Projection,
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three about the google maps api
Map Search Wizard. via Google Maps API Blog. three . google maps projection. According to Google [official], they use a Mercator projection for their maps [both street and satellite]. Charlie Savage provides quite a bit more detail,
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What’s In A Name? Maps as Sources of Controversy
Monmonier has already written books on controversies about the use of the Mercator projection, the use of maps in spying, map distortions, meteorological maps, the political use and misuse of maps, maps in journalism, the use of maps in
Does this Mercator Projection make me look fat?
Everything would be OK if you went about business a litle bit differently, like, if I was a map. Then, I'd be all laid flat on a wall, This Mercator Projection makes my ass look huge. And you already know about longitude.

Map Projection Overview
Once used to map Landsat images (now replaced by the Space Oblique Mercator), this projection is used for areas that are long, thin zones at a diagonal with
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
Map Projections
Geradus Mercator invented his famous projection in 1569 as an aid to navigators. On his map, lines of latitude and longitude intersect at right angles and
World Sunlight Map
The Mercator projection used here is one way of looking at the spherical earth as a flat map. Used since the 16th century for navigation, straight lines on
Map Projections: Navigators and Radio Operators
More commonly applied to large-scale maps, the verse aspect preserves every property of Mercator's projection, but since meridians are not straight
Map-It - A GMT3 Map Generator
reulting map This form takes longitude/latitude pairs as input and plots them on a Mercator projection map along with land/sea and political boundaries.
A More Realistic View of Our World - Features
The most widely used map in the U.S. today is the Mercator projection map. Mercator maps often appear in businesses, in libraries and in classrooms where
Gall-Peters projection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection p. 152. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (Thorough treatment of the social
Java world map projections - by Henry Bottomley.
As an example, the Mercator projection is conformal and can be used for navigational purposes since angles on the map represent bearings on a compass (and
DIVERSOPHY.COM - using the Peters Map
The Mercator is also a "conformal" map projection. This means that it shows shapes pretty much the way they appear on the globe. The mapmaker's dilemma is map+mercator+projection: , , , , map+mercator+projection