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Cylindrical conformal map projection
The Mercator projection (/mərˈkeɪtər/) is a conformal cylindrical map projection first presented by Flemish geographer and mapmaker Gerardus Mercator in
Mercator_projection
Topics referred to by the same term
Mercator (Latin for "merchant") often refers to the Mercator projection, a cartographic projection named after its inventor, Gerardus Mercator. Mercator
Mercator
Flemish cartographer (1512–1594)
Gerardus Mercator (/dʒəˈrɑːrdəs mɜːrˈkeɪtər, mər-/; 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer. He is most
Gerardus_Mercator
Mercator variant map projection
Web Mercator, Pseudo-Mercator, or Google Web Mercator is a variant of the Mercator map projection used for coordinates in WGS 84 Web Mercator or WGS 84
Web_Mercator_projection
Adaptation of the standard Mercator projection
The transverse Mercator map projection (TM, TMP) is an adaptation of the standard Mercator projection. The transverse version is widely used in national
Transverse Mercator projection
Transverse_Mercator_projection
First map in Mercator's projection
The Mercator world map of 1569 is titled Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata (Renaissance Latin for "New and
Mercator_1569_world_map
Map projection system
The Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) is a projected coordinate system based on the transverse Mercator map projection of the Earth spheroid. As a map
Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system
Universal_Transverse_Mercator_coordinate_system
Retail company in Slovenia
Poslovni sistem Mercator, d.o.o. (pronounced [mɛɾˈkaːtɔɾ]; Latin for 'merchant') is a Slovenian business conglomerate. One of the largest companies in
Mercator_(retail)
German-made pocket knife
The Mercator K55K is a type of lock blade pocketknife produced in Solingen [ˈzoːlɪŋən] Germany. Mercator brand knives were originally produced by Heinrich
Mercator_K55K
German mathematician (c.1620 – 1687)
Nicholas (Nikolaus) Mercator (c. 1620, Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck – 1687, Versailles), also known by his German name Kauffmann, was a 17th-century mathematician
Nicholas_Mercator
Series of combine harvesters by Claas
Mercator is a series of combine harvesters produced by the German agricultural company Claas in Harsewinkel. Initially called Senator, the Mercator series
Claas_Mercator
Systematic representation of the surface of a sphere or ellipsoid onto a plane
with a sphere or ellipsoid. The most well-known map projection is the Mercator projection. This map projection has the property of being conformal. However
Map_projection
Deity in Greek mythology
Gerardus Mercator characterized Atlas as the founder of geography, leading to the modern sense of the term "atlas" for a collection of maps after Mercator published
Atlas_(mythology)
Flemish cartographer (1641–1599)
Rumold Mercator (1541 in Leuven – 31 December 1599 in Duisburg) was a cartographer, son of Gerardus Mercator and brother of Arnold Mercator, both also
Rumold_Mercator
Cylindrical equal-area map projection
it as a superior alternative to the commonly used Mercator projection, on the basis that the Mercator projection greatly distorts the relative sizes of
Gall–Peters_projection
Serbian supermarket chain
Mercator Serbia (Serbian: Меркатор Србија, romanized: Merkator Srbija) also known as Mercator-S, is a Serbian supermarket chain and a part of Mercator
Mercator_Serbia
German think tank
The Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) is a nonprofit German think tank with a focus on China founded in 2013 by Stiftung Mercator [de], a
Mercator Institute for China Studies
Mercator_Institute_for_China_Studies
Indian shipping company
Mercator Limited was an Indian company. It was earlier known as Mercator Lines Ltd. The Mercator group of companies has diversified business interests
Mercator_(company)
Species of beetle
Oryzaephilus mercator, the merchant grain beetle, is a small, flattened beetle about 2.5mm in length. It is a common, worldwide pest of grain and grain
Oryzaephilus_mercator
1932 barquentine
Mercator is a steel-hulled barquentine built in 1932 as a training ship for the Belgian merchant fleet. She was named after Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594)
Mercator_(ship)
WW2-era American maritime reconnaissance aircraft
The Martin P4M Mercator was a maritime reconnaissance aircraft built by the Glenn L. Martin Company. The Mercator was an unsuccessful contender for a United
Martin_P4M_Mercator
Taylor series for the natural logarithm
In mathematics, the Mercator series or Newton–Mercator series is the Taylor series for the natural logarithm: ln ( 1 + x ) = x − x 2 2 + x 3 3 − x 4
Mercator_series
Geographic coordinate specifying north-south position
named parallels (as red lines) on the commonly used Mercator projection and the Transverse Mercator projection. On the former the parallels are horizontal
Latitude
Map projection
The oblique Mercator map projection is an adaptation of the standard Mercator projection. The oblique version is sometimes used in national mapping systems
Oblique_Mercator_projection
Ship built in 1998
Seahorse Mercator is a navigational training vessel operated by DMS Maritime under contract to the Royal Australian Navy's (RAN) National Support Squadron
Seahorse_Mercator
American whaler (1803–1872)
Mercator Cooper (September 29, 1803 – March 23 or April 24, 1872) was a ship's captain who is credited with the first formal American visit near Edo (now
Mercator_Cooper
British/Belgian remote sensing system
Qinetiq Mercator 1 is a joint British/Belgian remote sensing system utilising a modified version of the Qinetiq Zephyr High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE)
Qinetiq_Mercator
Cylindrical equidistant map projection
rejecting the use of all rectangular world maps) List of map projections Mercator projection 360 video projection Wikimedia Gallery of Equirectangular World
Equirectangular_projection
Map of most or all of the surface of the Earth
Perhaps the best-known projection is the Mercator Projection, originally designed as a nautical chart. Mercator projection (showing between 82°S and 82°N)
World_map
Apocryphal island near the North Pole
Magnetic Pole or at the geographic North Pole itself. Described by Gerardus Mercator as 33 French miles in size, it provided a supposed explanation for why
Rupes_Nigra
List of ships with the same or similar names
have been named Mercator, including – SS Mercator (1891), a Finnish cargo ship in service 1891–1916. Torpedoed and sunk in 1916. SS Mercator (1904), a Finnish
SS_Mercator
Polish company
Mercator Medical S.A. is a Polish company established in 1996 in Kraków, involved in the manufacture of disposable personal protective equipment for medical
Mercator_Medical
Telescope in La Palma, Canary Islands; focused on exoplanet research
The Mercator Telescope is a 1.2 m telescope at the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos on La Palma. It is operated by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Mercator_Telescope
Map projection in which every angle between two curves that cross each other is preserved
Empire, which reduced scale errors to 1/50. Mercator projection (conformal cylindrical projection) Mercator projection of normal aspect (Every rhumb line
Conformal_map_projection
son of cartographer Gerardus Mercator and a brother of Rumold Mercator. Arnold was the eldest child of Gerardus Mercator and Barbara Schellekens from
Arnold_Mercator
Building in New Belgrade, Serbia
Mercator Center Belgrade (Serbian: Меркатор Центар Београд), located in Belgrade's municipality of New Belgrade, is the biggest Mercator Serbia Center
Mercator_Center_Belgrade
Flemish and Dutch engraver and cartographer (1563–1612)
of the work of Gerardus Mercator, and for his portraits of Francis Drake. He inherited and republished the plates of Mercator, thus reviving his legacy
Jodocus_Hondius
University of Duisburg was given the name of Gerhard Mercator in 1994. In 2003, the Gerhard Mercator University merged with the University of Essen to form
University_of_Duisburg
East-West geographic coordinate
"Chapter 5: The geometry of the ellipsoid". The Mercator Projections: The Normal and Transverse Mercator Projections on the Sphere and the Ellipsoid with
Longitude
Cartesian geographic coordinate system
projection. Each projected coordinate system, such as "Universal Transverse Mercator WGS 84 Zone 26N," is defined by a choice of map projection (with specific
Projected_coordinate_system
Comics character
Mister M (Absolon Zebardyn Mercator) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by
Mister_M_(character)
Slovenian businessman and politician (born 1953)
to prominence in 1997 as the president of the Slovenian retail company Mercator. In October 2011, he established the Positive Slovenia party, which won
Zoran_Janković_(politician)
Cylindrical compromise map projection
distortion inherent in any projection. It distorts sizes less than the Mercator projection does, and distorts shapes less than an equirectangular projection
Gall_stereographic_projection
Cylindrical compromise map projection
modified Mercator projection, proposed by Osborn Maitland Miller in 1942. The latitude is scaled by a factor of 4⁄5, projected according to Mercator, and
Miller_cylindrical_projection
transverse Mercator (MTM) coordinate system is a metric grid-based method of specifying geographic locations, similar to the Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate
Modified_transverse_Mercator
Polyhedral compromise map projection
distortion of relative size of areas, most notably when compared to the Mercator projection; and less distortion of shapes of areas, notably when compared
Dymaxion_map
Azimuthal equidistant map projection
of 1494. The projection appears in many Renaissance maps, and Gerardus Mercator used it for an inset of the north polar regions in sheet 13 and legend
Azimuthal equidistant projection
Azimuthal_equidistant_projection
Arc crossing all meridians of longitude at the same angle
applicable to straight lines on Mercator charts. For short distances portolan "rhumbs" do not meaningfully differ from Mercator rhumbs, but these days "rhumb"
Rhumb_line
Coordinate system for Ireland
Irish Transverse Mercator (ITM) is the official projected coordinate system for Ireland. It was implemented jointly by the Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi)
Irish_Transverse_Mercator
Bowring series of the transverse mercator published in 1989 by Bernard Russel Bowring gave formulas for the Transverse Mercator that are simpler to program
Transverse Mercator: Bowring series
Transverse_Mercator:_Bowring_series
Species of sea snail
Conus mercator, common name the trader cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies
Conus_mercator
Brussels: Mercator. pp. 7–8. ISBN 9789061537311. ———————; ———————, eds. (2007). "Saint Augustin, une présentation". Saint Augustin (in French). Mercator. pp
Pope_Leo_XIV_bibliography
Lunar escarpment
The Rupes Mercator is an escarpment located on the Moon. It is named after the neighboring Mercator crater, a name assigned to it in 1935 by the International
Rupes_Mercator
Ratio of distance on a map to the corresponding distance on the ground
Mercator projection is conformal since it is constructed to preserve angles and its scale factor is isotropic, a function of latitude only: Mercator does
Scale_(map)
Latin Christian ecclesiastical writer
Marius Mercator (born probably in Northern Africa about 390; died shortly after 451) was a Latin Christian ecclesiastical writer best known for his advocacy
Marius_Mercator
Coordinate system for Israel
Israeli Transverse Mercator (ITM), also known as the New Israel Grid (NIG; Hebrew: רשת ישראל חדשה, רשת ישראל החדשה Reshet Yisra'el Ha-Ḥadasha) is the official
Israeli_Transverse_Mercator
Business school
The Mercator School of Management (MSM) refers to the faculty of business administration of the University of Duisburg-Essen in North Rhine-Westphalia
Mercator_School_of_Management
American animated TV comedy series (1995-1997)
contain a credit counting how many times Emmitt appears in an episode. Weena Mercator is a person acknowledged whenever credits are used in an episode. Yakko
Freakazoid!
Pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection
equal-area map projection, sometimes called the Sanson–Flamsteed or the Mercator equal-area projection. Jean Cossin of Dieppe was one of the first mapmakers
Sinusoidal_projection
Pseudocylindrical compromise map projection
History List Portal By surface Cylindrical Mercator-conformal Gauss–Krüger Transverse Mercator Oblique Mercator Equal-area Balthasart Behrmann Gall–Peters
Robinson_projection
Collection of maps
geographical context dates from 1595 when the Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator published Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati
Atlas
United States Navy World War II tank landing ship
unknown) to the Panama Navigation Corporation, and subsequently named MV Mercator and re-flagged as Panamanian. Sometime prior to 1963 the ship was sold
USS_LST-310
Serbian supermarket chain
Idea (Serbian Cyrillic: Идеа) is a retail chain in Serbia, part of Mercator-S. Through a small and super format, IDEA is intended for everyday shopping
Idea_(supermarkets)
perpendicular to central meridian are preserved. 1569 Mercator = Wright Cylindrical Conformal Gerardus Mercator Lines of constant bearing (rhumb lines) are straight
List_of_map_projections
Cylindrical perspective map projection
practical maps. Its vertical stretching is even greater than that of the Mercator projection, whose construction method is sometimes erroneously described
Central cylindrical projection
Central_cylindrical_projection
Projection of a sphere through its center onto a plane
The track is first drawn on the gnomonic chart, then transferred to a Mercator chart for navigation. The gnomonic projection is used extensively in photography
Gnomonic_projection
Family of map projections
History of the Mercator Projection p. 152. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (Thorough treatment of the social history of the Mercator projection
Cylindrical equal-area projection
Cylindrical_equal-area_projection
Leader of China since 2012
"The increasing challenge of obtaining information from Xi's China". Mercator Institute for China Studies. Retrieved 3 August 2025. Kroeber, Arthur R
Xi_Jinping
Fifth-longest river in Europe (Russia)
Donko in Mercator's Atlas (1596). Donkov was again relocated in 1618, appearing as Donkagorod in Joan Blaeu's map of 1645. Both Blaeu and Mercator follow
Don_(river)
Study and practice of making maps
intermediate between the two. In 1569, mapmaker Gerardus Mercator first published a map based on his Mercator projection, which uses equally-spaced parallel vertical
Cartography
Country in South America
Retrieved 16 June 2015. Daly, Charles P. (1880). "Maps and Map-making Before Mercator". The Popular Science Monthly. Bonnier Corporation. 473–495, see page 493
Brazil
Polyhedral compromise map projection
map. The projection does not have some of the major distortions of the Mercator projection, like the expansion of countries in far northern latitudes,
AuthaGraph_projection
System to specify locations on Earth
space. A particular SRS specification (for example, "Universal Transverse Mercator WGS 84 Zone 16N") comprises a choice of Earth ellipsoid, horizontal datum
Spatial_reference_system
Dutch anthropologist
anthropologist and expert on modern China. He was director and CEO of the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin but served less than two
Frank_N._Pieke
Musical tuning system of 53 pitches
19 342 813 113 834 066 795 298 816 , which is known as Mercator's comma. Mercator's comma is of such small value to begin with ( ≈ 3.615 cents),
53_equal_temperament
Lunar impact crater
Mercator is a lunar impact crater that is located on the southwestern edge of Mare Nubium, in the southwest part of the Moon. It was named after 16th-century
Mercator_(crater)
Latin comedic play by Plautus
Mercator, "The Merchant," is a Latin comedic play for the early Roman theatre by Titus Maccius Plautus. It is based on the Greek play Emporos (the Merchant)
Mercator_(play)
Conic conformal map projection
details on the equations used to perform the Lambert Conformal Conic and Mercator map projections of CCS83 Lambert Conformal Conic to Geographic Transformation
Lambert conformal conic projection
Lambert_conformal_conic_projection
Pseudoazimuthal compromise map projection
History List Portal By surface Cylindrical Mercator-conformal Gauss–Krüger Transverse Mercator Oblique Mercator Equal-area Balthasart Behrmann Gall–Peters
Winkel_tripel_projection
Characterization of distortion in map projections
the maximum angular distortion. For conformal projections such as the Mercator projection, h = k {\displaystyle h=k} and θ = π 2 {\displaystyle \theta
Tissot's_indicatrix
Pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection
wider adoption of the Equal Earth projection as an alternative to the Mercator projection. Šavrič, Bojan; Patterson, Tom; Jenny, Bernhard (2018-08-07)
Equal_Earth_projection
Azimuthal equal-area map projection
History List Portal By surface Cylindrical Mercator-conformal Gauss–Krüger Transverse Mercator Oblique Mercator Equal-area Balthasart Behrmann Gall–Peters
Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection
Lambert_azimuthal_equal-area_projection
Research university in Bremen, Germany
53°10′N 8°39′E / 53.167°N 8.650°E / 53.167; 8.650 Constructor University, formerly Jacobs University Bremen, is an international, private, residential
Constructor_University
Set of geographic coordinate systems for regions of the United States
national mapping. Most state plane zones are based on either a transverse Mercator projection or a Lambert conformal conic projection. The choice between
State_Plane_Coordinate_System
and the bespoke NZMG projection was replaced by New Zealand Transverse Mercator 2000 (NZTM2000). New Zealand topographical maps are sold digitally and
Cartography_of_New_Zealand
Conglomerate company
percent of shares of Poslovni system Mercator from Agrokor d.d. to Fortenova Group, on 23 April 2021, Mercator became an integral part of Fortenova Group's
Fortenova_Group
Polyhedral compromise map projection
History List Portal By surface Cylindrical Mercator-conformal Gauss–Krüger Transverse Mercator Oblique Mercator Equal-area Balthasart Behrmann Gall–Peters
Waterman_butterfly_projection
University in Germany
1654 and re-established on 1 January 2003, as a merger of the Gerhard Mercator University of Duisburg and the university of Essen. It is based in both
University_of_Duisburg-Essen
Particular mapping that projects a sphere onto a plane
stereographic projection, as were later the maps of Jean Rotz (1542), Rumold Mercator (1595), and many others. In star charts, even this equatorial aspect had
Stereographic_projection
Pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection
Samuel Whittemore Boggs [fr] (1889–1954) to provide an alternative to the Mercator projection for portraying global areal relationships. Boggs was geographer
Boggs_eumorphic_projection
System of geographic grid references used in Great Britain
Survey of Northern Ireland for the island of Ireland. The Irish Transverse Mercator (ITM) coordinate reference system was adopted in 2001 and is now the preferred
Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid
Type of map projection
History List Portal By surface Cylindrical Mercator-conformal Gauss–Krüger Transverse Mercator Oblique Mercator Equal-area Balthasart Behrmann Gall–Peters
Polyhedral_map_projection
Country in Northwestern Europe
Early Modern flourishing of Western Europe included cartographer Gerardus Mercator, anatomist Andreas Vesalius, herbalist Rembert Dodoens and mathematician
Belgium
Country in Southeast Europe
February 2019. "Turkish The Turkish language in Education in Greece" (PDF). mercator-research.eu. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 February 2019. Trudgill
Greece
Map projection
Space-oblique Mercator projection is a map projection devised in the 1970s for preparing maps from Earth-survey satellite data. It is a generalization
Space-oblique Mercator projection
Space-oblique_Mercator_projection
Unit of speed
when navigating an aircraft or ship. On a standard nautical chart using Mercator projection, the horizontal (East–West) scale varies with latitude. On a
Knot_(unit)
Map projection
each square is only 9% of the area of the sphere, against 13% for the Mercator and 50% for the stereographic The curvature of lines representing great
Guyou hemisphere-in-a-square projection
Guyou_hemisphere-in-a-square_projection
Dutch cartographer, geographer and cosmographer (1527–1598)
Terrarum ('Theatre of the World'). Along with Gemma Frisius and Gerardus Mercator, Ortelius is generally considered one of the founders of the Netherlandish
Abraham_Ortelius
Slovenian handball team
"Ekipa" [Team] (in Slovenian). RK Krim. Retrieved 19 July 2025. "Krim Mercator Ljubljana – EHF Competition history". European Handball Federation. Retrieved
RK_Krim
Pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection
History List Portal By surface Cylindrical Mercator-conformal Gauss–Krüger Transverse Mercator Oblique Mercator Equal-area Balthasart Behrmann Gall–Peters
Eckert_IV_projection
MERCATOR
MERCATOR
MERCATOR
MERCATOR
Girl/Female
Indian, Modern, Sindhi
Living in Sky
Boy/Male
Indian, Kannada
Brightness of the Lamp Light
Girl/Female
American, Australian, Chinese, Christian, French
Alone Spelled Backwards; Solitary; Magnolia
Girl/Female
Polish
Strong. life.
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi
Vaikuntam; The Abode of Lord Vishnu
Boy/Male
Hindu
Depends and trusts Hanuman to fulfil his task
Girl/Female
Tamil
Girl/Female
American, Anglo, Australian, Bengali, British, Chinese, Christian, Czechoslovakian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Indian, Italian, Jamaican, Latin, Netherlands, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Sindhi, Spanish, Swedish, Sw
Crowned with Laurels; Laurel; The Laurel Tree; Sweet Bay Tree; Bay
Boy/Male
Tamil
Girl/Female
Hindu
Name of a Raga
MERCATOR
MERCATOR
MERCATOR
MERCATOR
MERCATOR
n.
Law; as, lex talionis, the law of retaliation; lex terrae, the law of the land; lex fori, the law of the forum or court; lex loci, the law of the place; lex mercatoria, the law or custom of merchants.
n.
A genus of univalve shells, abundant in tropical seas. Some species, as Columbella mercatoria, were formerly used as shell money.