Category:Mercator projection
English: The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It became the standard map projection for nautical purposes because of its ability to represent lines of constant course, known as rhumb lines or loxodromes, as straight segments. While the linear scale is equal in all directions around any point, thus preserving the angles and the shapes of small objects (which makes the projection conformal), the Mercator projection distorts the size and shape of large objects, as the scale increases from the equator to the poles, where it becomes infinite.
This category should be used for all media relating to the Mercator projection other than maps using it, which should be placed in the more specific category Category:Maps with Mercator projection.
English: This map-projection-related category exists in the following hierarchy:
- Category:Map projections
- Category:Maps by projection
- Category:Mercator projection – media related to the Mercator projection other than maps
- Category:Maps with Mercator projection (“Category:Mercator projections”) – maps made using the Mercator projection
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Subcategories
This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
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Media in category "Mercator projection"
The following 34 files are in this category, out of 34 total.
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Cyl proj scale 3examples.svg 410 × 270; 46 KB
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Central cylindrical light projection.svg 512 × 384; 97 KB
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Comparison of Mercator projections.svg 512 × 455; 55 KB
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Cyl proj scale merc.svg 500 × 300; 36 KB
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Cyl proj scale secant.svg 520 × 190; 82 KB
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Hyperbolic Japanese Tiling (28677250671).jpg 6,000 × 3,000; 8.67 MB
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Mercator and angles.svg 400 × 164; 54 KB
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Mercator and central cylindrical.png 470 × 219; 24 KB
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Mercator and central cylindrical.svg 495 × 229; 42 KB
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Mercator and shapes.svg 353 × 237; 77 KB
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Mercator and straightened rhumb.png 978 × 471; 59 KB
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Mercator and straightened rhumb.svg 944 × 456; 124 KB
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Mercator by Wright stretching.svg 492 × 238; 108 KB
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Mercator projection ar.png 1,500 × 656; 207 KB
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Mercator projections vs rotation.gif 800 × 339; 4.22 MB
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Mercator robinson sinusoïdaal.PNG 2,507 × 1,000; 237 KB
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Mercator scale elements.svg 280 × 117; 19 KB
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Mercator scale plot.svg 132 × 233; 47 KB
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Mercator y plot.svg 154 × 232; 82 KB
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National Atlas Mercator.gif 280 × 164; 12 KB
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Netzentwuerfe.png 797 × 2,161; 242 KB
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Podziałka złożona dla Merkatora.png 3,001 × 1,168; 143 KB
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Proiezione Mercatore.svg 4,000 × 2,480; 776 KB
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Rhumb line vs great-circle arc.png 1,854 × 2,254; 865 KB
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Scale drawing of mercator map projection.jpg 1,056 × 741; 109 KB
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Usgs map mercator-ko.svg 413 × 181; 465 KB
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Usgs map mercator.svg 413 × 181; 525 KB
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Vergrotende breedte.PNG 800 × 800; 23 KB
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View of different world displays, 1719.jpg 851 × 1,021; 170 KB
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World Scale from DMA Series 1150 map.png 3,301 × 890; 14 KB
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Μερκατορική προβολή 1834.jpg 3,456 × 4,608; 2.95 MB
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Музей Обуховского завода. Санкт-Петербург. Карта экпорта продукции.jpg 4,128 × 3,096; 3.4 MB
