Mercator Class

Syntax

Visual Basic

'Declaration
 
Public Class Mercator 
   Inherits Projection

C#

public class Mercator : Projection 

Remarks

The well-known Mercator projection was perhaps the first projection to be regularly identified when atlases of over a century ago gradually began to name projections used, a practice now fairly commonplace.

The meridians of longitude of the Mercator projection are vertical parallel equally spaced lines, cut at right angles by horizontal straight parallels which are increasingly spaced at each pole so that conformality exists.

The major navigational feature of the projection is found in the facts that a sailing route between two points is shown as a straight line, if the direction or azimuth of the ship remains constant with respect to north. This kind of route is called a loxodrome or rhumb line and is usually longer than the great circle path.

This projection has been standard since 1910 for nautical charts prepared by the former U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.

This code has been verified against the numerical examples in "Map Projections - A Working Manual" by John P Snyder, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395" for forward and reverse spherical and ellipsoid.

Requirements

Target Platforms: Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server 2012, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2