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Re: Mercator projection in the news
From: Bill Lionheart
Date: 2025 Aug 27, 21:47 +0100
From: Bill Lionheart
Date: 2025 Aug 27, 21:47 +0100
There seems to be so much confusion about projections. Maybe folks should look at a globe.... maybe an animated one, then you can judge the sizes and positions of land masses, can check great circle routes etc.
Bill
On Wed, 27 Aug 2025, 15:36 NavList Community, <NavList@navlist.net> wrote:
Re: Mercator projection in the news
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2025 Aug 27, 06:39 -0700Frank,
You wrote:
"The Mercator projection is junk. It should have been consigned to the dustbin of history by the late twentieth century, and, in fact, that's where it was headed."
I did not expect this from you. Does not the same apply to the whole subject of traditional Celestial navigation? (Traditional means using stars rather than artificial satellites.) And to many other things that people are doing?
Alex.
