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  1. Mercator Limited (formerly Mercator Lines Ltd.) is the parent company and was the second largest private sector shipping company in India, and it is based in Mumbai. It was amongst the highest wealth creators in the Indian stock exchanges between 2000 -2010.

  2. Incorporated in 1983, Mercator is India’s second largest private sector shipping company with diversified interests ranging from Shipping, Coal, Dredging and Offshore Oil and Gas services. Since...

  3. The Mercator projection ( / mərˈkeɪtər /) is a conformal cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It became the standard map projection for navigation due to its ability to represent north as "up" and south as "down" everywhere while preserving local directions and shapes.

  4. Jun 27, 2024 · The Mercator projection is a map projection introduced by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. The Mercator projection is a useful navigation tool, as a straight line on a Mercator map indicates a straight course, but it is not a practical world map, because of distortion of scale near the poles.

  5. Mercator Limited (earlier known as Mercator Lines Ltd) is Mumbai based International organisation. As a group, Mercator has diversified business interests in Coal, Oil & Gas, Commodity...

  6. Nov 5, 2009 · Mercator Lines has acquired four dredgers and plans to add six more to its portfolio. Indian ports continuously require dredging to keep their shipping channels deep.

  7. Jan 13, 2014 · Mercator found that to keep the rhumb lines straight he had to make lines of latitude move away from each other as they moved north and south of the equator. In order to do this, he created a projection that preserved the 90° angles between the latitude and longitude lines.

  8. The Mercator projection satisfies two important properties: it is conformal, that is it preserves angles, and it maps the sphere’s parallels into straight line segments of length 2πR 2. π. R. (A parallel of latitude means a small circle comprised of points at a specified latitude).

  9. What It Shows. As shown in the drawing, the Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection of the spherical globe. The meridians and parallels of latitude on the globe end up appearing as lines crossing at right angles in the projection.

  10. 5 days ago · By imposing a sense of order on the illustrated world by plotting it on an east-west and north-south grid, and having that grid apply everywhere, Mercator made it possible to chart more accurate headings along straight lines.