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  2. Web Mercator projection - Wikipedia

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    The standard style for OpenStreetMap, like most Web maps, uses the Web Mercator projection. Web Mercator, Google Web Mercator, Spherical Mercator, WGS 84 Web Mercator [1] or WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator is a variant of the Mercator map projection and is the de facto standard for Web mapping applications. It rose to prominence when Google Maps adopted ...

  3. Spherical coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    Once the radius is fixed, the three coordinates (r, θ, φ), known as a 3-tuple, provide a coordinate system on a sphere, typically called the spherical polar coordinates. The plane passing through the origin and perpendicular to the polar axis (where the polar angle is a right angle ) is called the reference plane (sometimes fundamental plane ).

  4. Stereographic map projection - Wikipedia

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    The sphere is normally chosen to model the Earth when the extent of the mapped region exceeds a few hundred kilometers in length in both dimensions. For maps of smaller regions, an ellipsoidal model must be chosen if greater accuracy is required. [1] The ellipsoidal form of the polar ellipsoidal projection uses conformal latitude. There are ...

  5. Coordination sphere - Wikipedia

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    In crystalline FeSO 4. 7H 2 O, the first coordination sphere of Fe 2+ consists of six water ligands. The second coordination sphere consists of a water of crystallization and sulfate, which interact with the [Fe(H 2 O) 6] 2+ centers. Metal ions can be described as consisting of series of two concentric coordination spheres, the first and second.

  6. World Geodetic System - Wikipedia

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    The World Geodetic System (WGS) is a standard used in cartography, geodesy, and satellite navigation including GPS.The current version, WGS 84, defines an Earth-centered, Earth-fixed coordinate system and a geodetic datum, and also describes the associated Earth Gravitational Model (EGM) and World Magnetic Model (WMM).

  7. Mercator projection - Wikipedia

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    The Mercator projection in normal aspect maps trajectories of constant bearing (called rhumb lines or loxodromes) on a sphere to straight lines on the map, and is thus uniquely suited to marine navigation: courses and bearings are measured using a compass rose or protractor, and the corresponding directions are easily transferred from point to ...

  8. Cassini projection - Wikipedia

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    Cassini is known as a spherical projection, but can be generalised as an elliptical form. Considering the earth as an ellipse, the projection is composed of these operations:

  9. Map projection - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [3] In a map projection, coordinates, often expressed as latitude and longitude, of locations from the surface of the globe are transformed to coordinates on a plane. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Projection is a necessary step in creating a two-dimensional map and is one of the essential elements of cartography.