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latitude and longitude are the same as the Mercator
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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
What system for mapping the round earth on a flat surface called?
A map projection is a way to represent the curved surface of the Earth on the flat surface of a map.
Would Greenland be smaller on a Mercator or a Robinson map projection?
Greenland appears larger on a Mercator map projection compared to a Robinson map projection. The Mercator projection distorts the size of land masses as they near the poles, resulting in Greenland appearing much larger than it actually is.
Who made a flat map?
Gerardus Mercator creates the first flat map
What is a Mercator map?
A way of showing the sphere on the earth on the flat surface of a map.
What did Gerardus Mercator invent?
Geardus Mercator invented the Mercator Map in 1569
How does a mercator map misrepresent the world?
The Mercator map projection does not represent area correctly. the equatorial regions are relatively small and the polar regions relatively large (if Greenland looks larger than Australia then the area proportions are wrong Australia has more than three times the surface area of Greenland).
Who was the first man to draw a map of the earth on flat surface?
gerhardus mercator
What type of map is gps map?
mercator map
Mercator projection what popular map in classrooms in the US is what kind of map.?
Mercator projection what popular map in classrooms in the US is what kind of map?
Mercator projection what popular map in classrooms in the US is what kind of map?
Mercator projection what popular map in classrooms in the US is what kind of map?
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 is the shortage airline distance between Chicato to London on a Mercator map?
On a Mercator map it is a straight line.
What type of map projection is used by ship navigation?
Mercator
What kind of map is a rectangular representation of earth that shows accurate directions but distorts and distances?
mercator projection
What map was created to help navigators?
the Mercator map
