Mercator
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Projection name: Mercator
- Projection naming principle: Principle of Preponderance of Precedence
- Year of origin: 1511
- Name of originator: Erhard Etzlaub
- Originator reference:
- Template:YEAROFDESCRIPTION 1599
- Template:DESCRIBERNAME Edward Wright
- Template:DESCRIBERCITATION
- Projection synonyms: Wright
- Projection derivatives: Gauss-Krüger, Hotine, Cole, Rosenmund, Laborde, UTM = Universal Transverse Mercator, Space Oblique Mercator
- Naïve specializations:
- transverse cylindrical orthomorphic (transverse aspect)
- oblique cylindrical orthomorphic (oblique aspect)
