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What is the most famous of cylindrical projection?
mercator
What type of projection is a Mercator?
cylindrical projection
What is the most famous example of cylindrical?
mercator
What is the most famous example cylindrical projection?
mercator
What is the most famous example of cylindrical projection?
mercator
What is the Mercator projection map?
The Mercator system is a cylindrical map projection. It is essentially the shape of globe on a flat surface. It was first designed by mapmaker Gerardus Mercator in 1569.
What is a mercrator projection?
A Mercator projection map is a cylindrical map presented on a flat surface. It was first presented to the world by Gerardus Mercator in 1569.
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.
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
Landmasses near the poles are distorted on this type of map?
cylindrical projection
What is the type of cylindrical map projection that is commonly used and shows straight meridians and parallels that intersect at right angles?
It is the Mercator.
What is a mercator projecter?
A cylindrical map projection in which the meridians and parallels of latitude appear as lines crossing at right angles and in which areas appear greater farther from the equator.conic
