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The 22 pages that link to Mercator projection, each with the reason it gives.

• LatitudeCompared with: Its distortion makes high-latitude distances and areas appear much larger than they are.

• CartographyBroader topic: Its navigation advantage comes with dramatic area distortion.

• Map projectionBroader topic: Its conformal geometry preserves direction locally while stretching high-latitude regions.

• NavigationRelated: Its straight-line rhumb routes made it useful for marine charting despite severe area distortion.

• Nautical chartRelated: Its straight rhumb lines made it useful for plotting compass courses at sea.

• Portolan chartCompared with: It offers a mathematical projection for bearing-based navigation, unlike the portolan chart’s rhumb-line network.

• CircumnavigationRelated: Its later use made constant-bearing ocean routes easier to plot, though not shortest.

• Gerardus MercatorBroader topic: It is the cartographic method most closely associated with Mercator.

• Petrus PlanciusRelated: Plancius’s maritime maps used the projection to help represent ocean routes.

• Rhumb lineCompared with: Its straight rhumb-line appearance can obscure how much distance high-latitude routes add.

• Stereographic projectionCompared with: Both projections are conformal, but Mercator maps the sphere to a cylinder and distorts polar regions.

• World mapBroader topic: Its familiar world-map form enlarges regions toward the poles while aiding navigation.

• Google MapsRelated: The familiar tiled world map uses a web-adapted Mercator projection.

• Gall–Peters projectionCompared with: It preserves local shape rather than area, the reverse of Gall–Peters’s defining trade-off.

• History of cartographyBroader topic: Its navigational usefulness made projection choice central to map history.

• Robinson projectionCompared with: Unlike Mercator, Robinson does not preserve local angles and keeps polar regions far less enlarged.

• Arno PetersCompared with: Peters presented his area-preserving map against the familiar Mercator world map.

• Arthur H. RobinsonCompared with: Unlike Robinson’s compromise projection, Mercator prioritizes local shape and direction.

• Azimuthal equidistant projectionCompared with: Unlike this projection, Mercator preserves local angles rather than distances from a center.

• History of navigationRelated: Its straight rhumb lines made it useful for plotting maritime courses, despite distorted area.

• Jodocus HondiusRelated: Mercator’s projection helped make his maps enduringly useful to navigators and publishers.

• Oronce FineCompared with: Unlike Fine’s heart-shaped world map, it became especially useful for maritime navigation.