Mercator projection

Modeled and animated by Grafonaut. Video as part of a course by Emarin Norway. Explaining the sacrifices made to convert the earths spherical surface into a flat, navigable map.

[gnexus]

I watched a whole bunch of five and six minute video explaining the Mercator map and and 40 seconds with zero words this person has made me understand

[jaimebenito]

Best explanation of the Mercator projection I've ever seen: no words.

[dbs]

This is the video that perfectly summarises “sometimes silence is the best response”! I got the answer I was looking for 😊

[YashGarg]

the best way you could explain this. thanks to whoever made this.

[MichaelRuddock]

At last a decent animation explaining the issue! Well done, Thank you.

[HypercatZ]

At 0:30 I was about to say:"That's not Mercator projection!". But then the familiar distortion came.

[JackJ]

I couldn’t understand people explaining the Mercator projections for years, and this silent animation just gave me all of the knowledge.. lmao

[mohamedabdo-psjq]

These lines were useful as navigators were using only the compass to determine their direction, but that projection showed land in the northern hemisphere more than it actually was.

For example, maps using this projection show Greenland as roughly the same size as Africa, while in fact it is 14 times smaller, and South America looks as if it is the same size as Europe, almost double its size.

[litup]

Question : is there a transition between cylindrical projection and Mercator projection?

[백은지-gy]

Hello. I have a question about the use of this video. We are developing educational contents. I would like to use this video for explain map projection. We would not use the content for commercial purposes and it will be used as materials for public education. Can you allow the use of this video? Please respond. Thank you.

[raimundmandl]

This is a wonderful kind of demonstration! I am just making a video about sea-charts. Can I use this video? I would be very happy!

[Exquisin]

But why is there that final stretch in the end? What was the purpose of doing that back when it was made?

[CeylonSage]

Hi Grafonaut,
Excellent video. Can I use this video in one of my youtube videos? I couldn't find a better animation for Mercator projection anywhere. I will surely mention your channel in my credits.

[MatthewSmith-esck]

Hello, we want to use this video as part of an elearning training course for a charity. It won't be used commercially, just with their volunteers. Is that ok?

[jonwan]

Damn Africa is legit the largest in this projection. That’s crazy

[Antsaboy]

So how is this any different from sinusoidal pro- *0:23* oh, right.

[groszak]

The problem with this visualization is that it uses plate carree as an intermediate state, instead of directly stretching to Mercator without distorting angles.

[jadabull]

So I’m trying to wrap my head around this and I admit I’ve never even heard of this until last night while doing some ancestry research. Does the map stretching fill in “imaginary” gaps? It’s a genuine question.

Btw my last name is Cramer, bloodline of its inventor Gerhard Kremer, who is believed to be the cartographer who invented the "Mercator Projection" on which all maps are based.

It's amazing how south america pratically didn't change except for chile and argentina

[mk_rexx]

It also visualizes several other projections along the way