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In 1569, Mercator published his epic world map. This map, with its Mercator Projection, was designed to help sailors navigate around the globe. They could use latitude and longitude lines to plot a straight route.
Mercator’s world maps flattened the spherical planet to make it easier to display. Displays of landmasses are not necessarily proportional to their actual size, especially toward the poles.
The projection preserves the shape of all the countries and continents without distorting them but it distorts the land areas of the countries.
But the Mercator map is still so widely used that even Google Maps uses it to give accurate directions.
He also coined the term “Atlas” (named after the Greek mythological figure who held the world on his shoulders) to describe a collection of maps. Mercator continued his cartography work for the rest of his life, publishing parts of his atlas until his death in 1594.
In 2017, Schools in the Boston district in the U.S. decided to switch from the Mercator’s Projection with the “Gall-Peters Projection”, which depicts continents and nations by their actual size, as proportional to one another.
A popular one is the “Winkel Tripel Projection”, invented by Oswald Winkel in 1921 and named for his “Tripel” (German for “triple”) goals of minimising distortion of area, direction, and distance. It does the job pretty well, and the National Geographic Society adopted it as the standard map in 1998.
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Sources :
Vox: Gerardus Mercator revolutionized mapmaking. He was almost executed for it : 5th March 2015.
Statista: The 30 largest countries in the world by total area : 2nd May, 2023.
National Geographic: Gerardus Mercator
Britannica: Atlas
Science Direct: Mercator Projection
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