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Hace 2 días · La expedición de Jenofonte, también conocida como la Marcha de los Diez Mil, ...
Hace 5 días · The Mercator Projection was one of the first important maps created by Europeans. It was produced by Gerard Mercator, a Flemish mapmaker who lent his name to his famous work. On such a map, the east-west and north-south lines are straight lines. Because the world is round, this makes for some not-so-accurate geographical representations.
Hace 5 días · Google Maps uses a Spherical Normal (equatorial) variant of the Mercator projection for its map images. The Mercator map projection was developed in 1569 by Gerardus Mercator as a navigation tool. It is based on a rectangular grid with parallel lines of latitude and longitude, which makes it suitable for nautical purposes. Does ...
Hace 4 días · Once upon a time, cartographers like Gerardus Mercator plotted out our globe for explorers to use on heroic journeys across the globe. He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map with constant bearing, named after himself – the Mercator Projection. Albeit, some of the older maps are works of art.
Hace 5 días · The most commonly used map projection is called the Mercator projection, developed by Gerardus Mercator in 1569. Why does Africa look smaller on maps? Africa appears smaller on maps due to the distortion caused by the Mercator projection, which exaggerates the size of objects near the poles and compresses them near the equator.
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Hace 4 días · Based on a mathematical formula that Gall first proposed in the 19th century, Peters projected an image of the world that attempted to capture the size of objects relative to each other. However, this map had its own problems in that it distorts geographical relationships by distorting shapes of countries and continents. In the end, all map ...
Hace 4 días · The Copernicus Marine Viewer (MyOcean Pro) allows you to explore most of our catalogue online with multi-projection maps as well as graphs vs. time, elevation and/or distance. The new MyOcean viewer powered by the Copernicus Marine service is an opportunity for everyone to be able to display maps of the ocean in 4 dimensions (longitude ...
