Mercator projection

English Etymology From la Gerardus Mercator, Latinized name of Gerardus Mercator Gerard de Cremer (1512–1594), Flemish cartographer and mathematician, from en la mercātor merchant. Noun 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. en Mercator en 2018 Julio Sanchez; Maria P. Canton Space Image Processing Routledge 9781351415439 191 https://books.google.com/books?id=VMuCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA191&dq=%22Mercator%22+projection&hl=&cd=7&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Mercator%22%20projection&f=false 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. en 2020 Gretchen N. Peterson GIS Cartography: A Guide to Effective Map Design 3rd CRC Press 9781000225914 144 https://books.google.com/books?id=EyYAEAAAQBAJ&pg=SA6-PA144&dq=%22Web+Mercator%22&hl=&cd=3&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Web%20Mercator%22&f=false 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. Further reading Mercator projection Web Mercator projection