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The Druivencross, also known as Vlaamse Druivenveldrit, is a cyclo-cross race held in Overijse, Belgium. The race is organised by the VZW Sportvrienden Overijse and was first held in 1960. The race is regarded as a Cyclo-cross classic [1] and has a difficult and dangerous parcours that often results in crashes.
Web Mercator: Cylindrical Compromise Google: Variant of Mercator that ignores Earth's ellipticity for fast calculation, and clips latitudes to ~85.05° for square presentation. De facto standard for Web mapping applications. 1822 Gauss–Krüger = Gauss conformal = (ellipsoidal) transverse Mercator: Cylindrical Conformal Carl Friedrich Gauss
Druivenkoers Overijse is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in August in Overijse, Belgium. [1] Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. [2] The record of victories (4) belongs to Roger De Vlaeminck and Björn Leukemans. [3]
The Miller cylindrical projection is a modified Mercator projection, proposed by Osborn Maitland Miller in 1942. The latitude is scaled by a factor of 4 ⁄ 5 , projected according to Mercator, and then the result is multiplied by 5 ⁄ 4 to retain scale along the equator. [ 1 ]
In particular, he criticized that the Mercator projection causes wealthy Europe and North America to appear very large relative to poorer Africa and South America. [ 5 ] : 155 These arguments swayed many socially concerned groups to adopt the Gall–Peters projection, including the National Council of Churches [ 8 ] and the magazine New ...
Gerardus Mercator (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ r ɑːr d ə s m ɜːr ˈ k eɪ t ər /; [a] [b] [c] 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) [d] was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer.He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines—an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts.
As with the Mercator projection, the region near the tangent (or secant) point on a Stereographic map remains very close to true scale for an angular distance of a few degrees. In the ellipsoidal model, a stereographic projection tangent to the pole has a scale factor of less than 1.003 at 84° latitude and 1.008 at 80° latitude.
Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens, Bd. 2. – Berlin, Leipzig, Wien, Stuttgart: Deutsches Verlaghaus Bong & Co, 1904. – 1. Aufl. Mercator, Gerardus (1538), 1538 Mercator Map Nordenskiöld Facsimile Atlas, plate XLIII. Shirley plate 79 (entries 74 and 91). Ortelius, Abraham (1564), Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Shirley plate 97 ...