Web Mercator, Google Web Mercator, Spherical Mercator, WGS 84 Web Mercator or WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator is a variant of the Mercator map projection and is...

The Mercator projection (/mərˈkeɪtər/) is a conformal cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in...

The transverse Mercator map projection (TM, TMP) is an adaptation of the standard Mercator projection. The transverse version is widely used in national...

The oblique Mercator map projection is an adaptation of the standard Mercator projection. The oblique version is sometimes used in national mapping systems...

a superior alternative to the commonly used Mercator projection, on the basis that the Mercator projection greatly distorts the relative sizes of regions...

Space-oblique Mercator projection is a map projection devised in the 1970s for preparing maps from Earth-survey satellite data. It is a generalization...

inspired by the Dymaxion map. The projection does not have some of the major distortions of the Mercator projection, like the expansion of countries in...

projection is any method of flattening a continuous curved surface onto a plane.[citation needed] The most well-known map projection is the Mercator projection...

The Miller cylindrical projection is a modified Mercator projection, proposed by Osborn Maitland Miller in 1942. The latitude is scaled by a factor of...

cylindric projection and its virtues, specifically disparaging Mercator's projection.) Weisstein, Eric W. "Cylindrical Equal-Area Projection." From MathWorld—A...