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On a mereator projection the greatest distortion is produced
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Lauren Mackay
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What came first Mercator projection or the Robinson projection?
Robinson projection
What are the three types of projection maps are?
Mercator Projection, Interrupted Projection, Robinson Projection
What are the advantages and disadvantages of a Mercator projection and of an equal area projection?
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When might you want to use a projection other than the Mercator projection?
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What is the most famous of cylindrical projection?
mercator
What is less accurate about a Mercator projection?
what is one problem with the mercator projection
What is a sentence for dstortion and map?
the further north you look on a Mercator-projection map, the greater its distortion.
On what type of map does distortion increase with distance from the poles?
The Mercator Projection distorts the size of large objects from the Equator to the poles. It was named for Flemish map make Gerardus Mercator.
Why does a mercator projection exaggerate the areas of landmasses near the poles?
The Mercator projection exaggerates areas far from the equator because it is not suited to general reference world maps due to its distortion of land area. The Mercator projection is still commonly used for areas near the equator.
What is the best projection to use when showing the entire world?
In my view, the Mercator, although it suffers from a lot of distortion.
What type of projection is a Mercator projectio?
It is a Mercator projection!
Who would use a mercator projection?
Mercator projection is still in common for navigation, due to its unique properties, cartographers agree that it is not suited to large area maps due to its distortion of land area toward the polar regions.
How are a mercator projection and an Robinson projection map the same?
what similarity about the mercator projection and the robinson projection?
On a flat map where does the distortion occur?
On a flattened map of the Earth's surface, like a Mercator projection, the distortion is everywhere except the equator, and grows as it gets closer to the Poles.
What is the common flaw for both the Robinson and Mercator projections of maps?
Both Robinson and Mercator projection have severe distortion close to the poles. The Robinson projection is neither equal-area nor conformal. The Mercator projection is conformal in that it preserves angles, however, it distorts the size and shape of large objects, as the scale increases from the Equator to the poles, where it becomes infinite.
What maps projection do nearly all seagoing navigators still use today?
The answer is the Mercator projection
What are the disadvantage of a mercator projection?
there is distortion at the north and south poles. The land sizes of the continents closest to the equator are smaller than they really are. But Mercator maps are very useful for sailors or pilots for finding direction.
