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noun
Pertaining to an orthomorphic map projection, in which meridians appear at right-angles to the equator, and lines of latitude are horizontal lines whose distance from each other increases with distance from the equator.
Medieval mapmakers wanted to chart their orientation to the Garden of Eden or Mecca; Mercator wanted to make things easier for sea-faring navigators; and colonialists wanted to plot the extents of their empires.
For instance, in the Mercator projection (below), north America looks at least as big, if not slightly larger, than Africa.
The history of the Mercator projection and the north-is-up convention show how small cartographic decisions can make huge differences in how we see the world.
For many people today, that projection − invented by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 − is the world map.
How Online maps provided by Google, Microsoft and others use the Mercator projection to display the world.
This was not a big problem for 16th-century sailors, of course, and the Mercator projection remains popular to this day.In Mr Krause's map (above) he seems to have used the shapes of the countries from a Mercator projection, but has scaled up the outline of Africa, without changing its shape, to show the appropriate area.
This projection is widely used for navigation charts, because any straight line on a Mercator-projection map is a line of constant true bearing that enables a navigator to plot a straight-line course.
Conversely, Europe and North America look – to the Mercator-trained eye – drastically squashed.
If a global deal is signed in December to keep most fossil fuels in the ground, then compensating the losers will be key, according to Michael Jakob, a climate change economist at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change in Berlin.
The Mercator Advisory Group forecasts a compound annual growth rate of 21% for the pre-paid card market to 2015, by when it expects the total dollar amount Americans load onto cards to be around $390 billion, more than ten times as much as in 2006.The banks may yet follow suit.
"Early adopters will try Apple Pay, but find that it is still easier to pay with a card," says Tim Sloane of Mercator Advisory Group, another market-research firm.Tapping a phone is likely to remain just one of several widely accepted ways to pay.
