This was my question too. Here is what I know. Polar projection shows the poles. but not really like the whole earth. While the mercator shows a flat globe in certain parts. Mercator is like a map. If its truest representation then I will have to say polar projection wins.
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The type of map projection used by pilots is called a Polar Projection. It shows the Earth from one of the two poles, which helps show what is known as The Great Circle Route. This states that if you live on a rounded object such as the Earth, you travel on a curved line. This makes a Polar Projection the best choice and most commonly used map projection used by pilots.
in a polar projection you can the northern hemisphere, a mercador projection where you can see stretched out land.
prime meridian
The Mercator Projection distorts the size of large objects from the Equator to the poles. It was named for Flemish map make Gerardus Mercator.
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A polar projection of the earth shows a pole (north or south, depending on the projection) at the center of a circular map. The equator is the circumference of the circle.
The type of map projection used by pilots is called a Polar Projection. It shows the Earth from one of the two poles, which helps show what is known as The Great Circle Route. This states that if you live on a rounded object such as the Earth, you travel on a curved line. This makes a Polar Projection the best choice and most commonly used map projection used by pilots.
in a polar projection you can the northern hemisphere, a mercador projection where you can see stretched out land.
Polar projections are often made in what is called the Azimuthal Equidistant Projection. The projection would be made tangent at the north pole, or at the south pole. These projections allow you to make linear measurements from the pole to any point on earth. These measurements are the shortest distances from the pole to the points and can be directly compared to one another. A polar projection shows the poles; I learned it in my science class.
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Polar Area
A map centred on a Pole.
you can see from the top
A map of a location near or in the poles.
Polar Projections
North pole