File:Equirectangular with rhumb+circle+triangle.svg
Summary
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English: World map on the equirectangular projection (or plane chart or Plate Carree). The graticule spacing is 10 degrees. This is a low resolution figure, unsuitable for zoom. The figure was produced in Inkscape 1.47 with (public domain ) data from the NGDC World Coast Line (on WGS84 datum). The red line is a rhumb. The black line is a great circle. Neither are straight. The Tissot ellipses indicate distortion: they apply to any meridian. True scale on all meridians and equator. The triangle is used on the Wiki Mercator projection page. The base (on equator) and the vertical (on meridian) are true to scale but Pythagoras gives the incorrect distance on the hypotenuse. |
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| Author | Peter Mercator |
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I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so: I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law. |
