map
Mercator projection
Conformal projection that greatly inflates high latitudes.
projection de Mercator
Projection conforme qui dilate fortement les hautes latitudes.
Classification
- map
- the name evokes: eponym
Attestation
- French term: Lagnel, Manuel de datavisualisation, Dunod, 2021
- English definition: Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
Sources (29)
124 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 9 books
Show the 29 sources
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World (Maps for Curious Minds)
- Cartography: thematic map design
- cedricscherer.com↗
- Data points: visualization that means something
- Data sketches
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- French Wikipedia↗
- Graphic presentation
- Handling and mapping geographic information
- How charts lie: getting smarter about visual information
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Lagnel, Manuel de datavisualisation, Dunod, 2021
- Semiologie graphique: les diagrammes, les réseaux, les cartes.
- The golden age of data visualization: how did we get here?
- The grammar of graphics
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- The visual display of quantitative information
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Visualize This
- Visualizing with text
- Wikipedia in English↗
- Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O'Reilly, 2019
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/mercator-projection.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. Mercator projection. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/mercator-projection.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-mercator-projection,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {Mercator projection},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/mercator-projection.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-10-13. Images last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.