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May 19, 2005 at 11:45 AM |
Gerard Mercator was a 16th century Belgian mathematician and
cartographer who first solved the age old problem of how to transform
the 3D world onto a 2D plane.
His projections are still in use today and the Universal Transverse
Mercator (UTM) projection is in frequent use around the
world. For those of you in the UK take a quick look at the "small
print" at the bottom of the map legend on an Ordnance Survey map (such
as the pink LandRanger series) and look for Mercator.
Oh, and by the way, Mercator is pronounced Merc-ay-tor! |
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Last Updated ( May 19, 2005 at 01:37 PM )
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