The Mercator projection does that.
The Mercator projection
a) planar projection B) cylindrical projection
Most maps will show latitude and longitude lines, if not, they're ALWAYS on a globe.
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They go straight up and down in parallel. (This is as opposed to a Robinson Projection where they bow out and away from the Prime Meridian.)
The ability of the Mercator projection to allow straight and constant course lines. Or longitude and latitude lines.
The ability of the Mercator projection to allow straight and constant course lines. Or longitude and latitude lines.
The parallels of latitude and the meridians of longitude are all straight lines on the Mercator projection. That's why Greenland looks bigger than South America.
The Mercator projection
a) planar projection B) cylindrical projection
Most maps will show latitude and longitude lines, if not, they're ALWAYS on a globe.
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They go straight up and down in parallel. (This is as opposed to a Robinson Projection where they bow out and away from the Prime Meridian.)
They curve with the curve of the Earth.
The vertical (or latitude) scale increases with latitude, keeping the hoizontal (longitude) constant. This is in order to make the lines of longitude parallel on the chart, instead of, in reality, converging toward the poles. This allows courses to be plotted and drawn on the chart, as straight lines crossing the lines of longitude at the same angle. Known as 'plane sailing'. ie. it is on a plane (flat surface) not a globe.
A polar projection is a map viewing either the North Pole or the South Pole from above. Each latitude line forms a circle that is centered at the pole. The latitude lines closest to the pole are the smallest, and the ones farther away are the largest.
Mercator is the type of projection which has parallel lines of longitude which disappear near the poles. The project in question also presents parallel lines of latitude even though the overall clarity gets distorted around both the North and South Poles.