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What is less accurate about a Mercator projection?
what is one problem with the mercator projection
What type of map is a Mercator map?
Mercator is not a map, but a map projection, i.e. a way of representing the continents on a map. The Mercator projection is only accurate between 30 degrees north and south latitude. The further away you go from that point, the greater the exaggeration.
What type of map projection is used by ship navigation?
Mercator
Would Greenland be smaller on a Mercator or a Robinson map projection?
It would show up smaller on a Mercator map projection
The Mercator projection made life easier for early navigators because they could plot their compass bearings as straight lines What type of projection is a Mercator projection?
cylindrical
What is the most used projection map?
Discounting the Mercator, which cartographers tend to HATE but is ubiquitous anyway... Probably the Lambert Conformal Conic projection, or the Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area projection (used by the US National Atlas).
What type of projection is a Mercator projectio?
It is a Mercator projection!
How are a mercator projection and an Robinson projection map the same?
what similarity about the mercator projection and the robinson projection?
How many world maps are there?
There are 4 maps total. The Lambert projection, Goode's Homolosine, Gerardus Mercator, and the Eckert IV.
What maps projection do nearly all seagoing navigators still use today?
The answer is the Mercator projection
What is less accurate about a Mercator projection?
what is one problem with the mercator projection
What type of projection is a Mercator?
cylindrical projection
What is the difference between mercator and Robinson projection?
the mercator projection lines are straight but the robinsons are curved
What came first Mercator projection or the Robinson projection?
Robinson projection
What type of map is a Mercator map?
Mercator is not a map, but a map projection, i.e. a way of representing the continents on a map. The Mercator projection is only accurate between 30 degrees north and south latitude. The further away you go from that point, the greater the exaggeration.
What are the three types of projection maps are?
Mercator Projection, Interrupted Projection, Robinson Projection
What type of map projection is used by ship navigation?
Mercator
