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Re: Death to the Mercator Projection
From: David Pike
Date: 2018 Aug 14, 03:35 -0700
From: David Pike
Date: 2018 Aug 14, 03:35 -0700
Correction to my last post: An en-route Mercator chart where the great circle of contact was in the general direction of the route i.e. neither the equator nor a meridian would be an oblique Mercator, not a transverse Mercator as quoted. DaveP