Mercator projection
cylindrical map projection invented by Gerardus Mercator in 1569
Facts
12 properties- Inception
- 1569[6]
- Defining formula
- \begin{align}& x = R( \lambda - \lambda_0), \\ &y = R\ln \left[\tan \left(\frac{\pi}{4} + \frac{\varphi}{2} \right) \right] \end{align}
- Described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[9]
- Discoverer or inventor
- Gerardus Mercator[2]
- In defining formula
- R, \lambda_0, \lambda, \ln, \varphi, \tan, \pi
- Maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics[11]
- Named after
- Gerardus Mercator[5]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[10]
- P14541
- 2TRfnD[12]
- Time of discovery or invention
- 1569[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en cylindrical conformal projection
en universal transverse Mercator
en Mercator projection
ar إسقاط مركاتور
cs Merkátorová projekce
cs Merkátorové zobrazení
cs Mercatorovo zobrazení
da Mercatorprojektion
de Mercatorkarte
de Merkator-Projektion
de Mercatorprojektion
de Mercatorentwurf
de Mercator-Projektion
el μερκατορική προβολή
es proyección Mercator
es proyección de Mercator
fa سامانه تصویر مرکاتور
fa سامانه تصویر نقشه مرکاتور
fa فراتابی مرکاتور
fi Mercator-projektio
🔖 Identifiers · 30
- Library of Congress authority ID
- sh2003001211
- GND ID
- 4380201-1
- OpenAlex ID
- C36639349
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
- 300263982
- BBC Things ID
- 481db009-330d-4ce2-b66c-486bf508c8fa
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 14648830n
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
- 140164
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- science/Mercator-projection
- Encyclopædia Universalis ID
- projection-cartographique-de-mercator
- FAST ID
- 1200159
- Freebase ID
- /m/056z2
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- projeccio-de-mercator
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- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0237352
- IFLA value vocabularies ID
- cartpro#bd
- IdRef ID
- 089909232
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)
- mercator-projection
- KBpedia ID
- MercatorProjection
- LC and MARC vocabularies ID
- mprojection/bd
- Lex ID
- Mercators_projektion
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
- 36639349
- NE.se ID
- mercators-projektion
- Namuwiki ID
- 메르카토르 도법
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007537448405171
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
- XX4793961
- PlanetMath ID
- MercatorProjection
- Quora topic ID
- Mercator-Projection
- ScienceDirect topic ID
- earth-and-planetary-sciences/mercator-projection
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com
- Vikidia article ID
- fr:Projection_de_Mercator
- Yale LUX ID
- concept/24c803b0-6574-42dd-9643-28b7b1df0814
🔗 Connections
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Discoverer or inventor 1
Location of creation 1
Maintained by WikiProject 1
Named after 1
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