Equirectangular projection and Gerardus Mercator

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Difference between Equirectangular projection and Gerardus Mercator

Equirectangular projection vs. Gerardus Mercator

The equirectangular projection (also called the equidistant cylindrical projection, geographic projection, or la carte parallélogrammatique projection, and which includes the special case of the plate carrée projection or geographic projection) is a simple map projection attributed to Marinus of Tyre, who Ptolemy claims invented the projection about AD 100. Gerardus Mercator (5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) was a 16th-century German-Flemish cartographer, geographer and cosmographer.

Similarities between Equirectangular projection and Gerardus Mercator

Equirectangular projection and Gerardus Mercator have 4 things in common (in Unionpedia): Cartography, Gall–Peters projection, Mercator projection, Ptolemy.

Cartography

Cartography (from Greek χάρτης chartēs, "papyrus, sheet of paper, map"; and γράφειν graphein, "write") is the study and practice of making maps.

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Gall–Peters projection

The Gall–Peters projection is a rectangular map projection that maps all areas such that they have the correct sizes relative to each other.

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Mercator projection

The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569.

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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; Claudius Ptolemaeus) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology.

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Equirectangular projection and Gerardus Mercator Comparison

Equirectangular projection has 22 relations, while Gerardus Mercator has 158. As they have in common 4, the Jaccard index is 2.22% = 4 / (22 + 158).

References

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