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== See also == *[[Cartography]] *[[Central cylindrical projection]] โ more distorted; sometimes erroneously described as the method of construction of the Mercator projection *[[Conformal map projection]] *[[Equirectangular projection]] โ less distorted, but not equal-area *[[GallโPeters projection]] โ an equal-area cylindrical projection *[[List of map projections]] *[[Mercator 1569 world map]] *[[Nautical chart]] *[[Omission of New Zealand from maps]] โ often believed to be caused by the Mercator projection *[[Rhumbline network]] *[[Tissot's indicatrix]] *[[Transverse Mercator projection]] *[[Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system]]
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