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2. Web Mercator projection - Wikipedia

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   The standard style for OpenStreetMap, like most Web maps, uses the Web Mercator projection. Web Mercator, Google Web Mercator, Spherical Mercator, WGS 84 Web Mercator [1] or WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator is a variant of the Mercator map projection and is the de facto standard for Web mapping applications. It rose to prominence when Google Maps adopted ...

3. List of map projections - Wikipedia

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   A family of map projections that includes as special cases Mollweide projection, Collignon projection, and the various cylindrical equal-area projections. 1932 Wagner VI: Pseudocylindrical Compromise K. H. Wagner: Equivalent to Kavrayskiy VII vertically compressed by a factor of /. c. 1865: Collignon

4. Mercator projection - Wikipedia

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   Maps, and others) use a variant of the Mercator projection for their map images [23] called Web Mercator or Google Web Mercator. Despite its obvious scale variation at the world level (small scales), the projection is well-suited as an interactive world map that can be zoomed seamlessly to local (large-scale) maps, where there is relatively ...

5. Google Maps - Wikipedia

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   Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bike, air (in beta) and public transportation.

6. Map projection - Wikipedia

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   Therefore, more generally, a map projection is any method of flattening a continuous curved surface onto a plane. [citation needed] The most well-known map projection is the Mercator projection. [7]: 45 This map projection has the property of being conformal. However, it has been criticized throughout the 20th century for enlarging regions ...

7. Gall–Peters projection - Wikipedia

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   The Gall–Peters projection of the world map. The Gall–Peters projection is a rectangular, equal-area map projection. Like all equal-area projections, it distorts most shapes. It is a cylindrical equal-area projection with latitudes 45° north and south as the regions on the map that have no distortion. The projection is named after James ...

8. Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system - Wikipedia

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   In the post-war years, these concepts were extended into the Universal Transverse Mercator/Universal Polar Stereographic (UTM/UPS) coordinate system, which is a global (or universal) system of grid-based maps. The transverse Mercator projection is a variant of the Mercator projection, which was originally developed by the Flemish geographer and ...

9. EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset - Wikipedia

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   EPSG:4326 - WGS 84, latitude/longitude coordinate system based on the Earth's center of mass, used by the Global Positioning System among others. EPSG:3857 - Web Mercator projection used for display by many web-based mapping tools, including Google Maps and OpenStreetMap.