Perhaps the time has come to abandon the universal reliance on the Mercator projection in favour of maps that offer a better compromise on the true shapes and sizes of the various countries of the ...

The data uses North American 1983 Datum (NAD83) and the Universal Transverse Mercator projection for zone 10. The metadata are available here. The data came as ESRI shapefiles and were last updated in ...

But take a look at an Ordnance Survey of Ireland map: it is a Transverse Mercator Projection, based on an Airy modified spheroid. For a regular Mercator map, the cylinder touches the Earth along ...

The poles themselves cannot be represented at all: to depict these you must rotate the image round through ninety degrees — the Transverse Mercator projection does this — but then another pair ...