Mercator projection en · NOUN
Etymology
From Gerardus Mercator, Latinized name of Gerard de Cremer (1512–1594), Flemish cartographer and mathematician, from Latin mercātor (“merchant”).
Meanings
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An orthomorphic map projection, in which meridians appear at right-angles to the equator, and lines of latitude are horizontal lines whose distance from each other increases with distance from the equator.
In the Mercator projection, the line of intersection between the cylinder and the sphere is the equator, while in the Traverse Mercator this line is a meridian.
2018, Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton, Space Image Processing, Routledge, →ISBN, page 191:Most digital maps are displayed in the Web Mercator projection but this is slowly changing. Web Mercator became the default standard for web mapping when the major online map services adopted it, like Google and OpenStreetMap.
2020, Gretchen N. Peterson, GIS Cartography […] , 3rd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 144:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercator projections | Number=Plur | lexicographic |