How are the Mercator projection and the Goode's projection different?

Answer 1

The Mercator projection is used for world maps, and is most accurate between 30 degrees north and south latitude. The further away you go from there, the more exaggerated it becomes.

The equal-area projection is also used for world maps, but only represents the continents in equal area with respect to their size, but not location.

The conic projection is used for maps that show polar regions, such as Alaska. Imagine an ice-cream cone turned upside down and placed on top of a ball. The only accurate representation would be only in the circle that cone touches the ball.

Answer 2

The difference between Mercator's and Peter's projection is that Mercator's projection blew up the size of powerful nations as size = power, in addition to this Mercator's projection allowed cartographers to produce charts from which sailors could navigate because his projection preserved shape and direction. IN contrast Peter did not really care about navigation, but rather restoring weaker, less powerful nations to their rightful size. The only problem with this was that sailors couldn't use Peter's projection for navigation, and his projection bought up a lot of controversy between educational and religious borders - some schools used Mercator's and some schools used Peter's/ some nations rejected peters projection and some nations accepted Peter's projection, etc.

Answer 3

On a conformal map projection the local shape of the maps features are preserved, the lines of longitude and latitude meet at right angles. On an equivalent map projection preserves the area of features on the map.

Answer 4

Equal-Area maps are more of the true shape, and mercator distorts it more

Answer 5

Very little - the Peters/Gall projection is a superior alternative to the Mercator projection