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well, actually little bit late, but who cares,  :tongue:

so, who the hell Mercator?, well when you playing map with Mercator Projection, he is the one who invent it  :grin:

March 5th, 2012 marks what would be the 500th birthday of Gerhardus Mercator (1512-1594). Mercator was a Flemish map maker and geographer.  In 1569, he created the Mercator projection which is widely used for navigation because straight lines drawn on maps that use this cylindrical projection are lines of constant compass bearing (rhumb lines); a variation of his projection is used today for many web maps.

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Mercator began making maps independently in 1537. He encouraged Abraham Ortelius to compile the first modern world atlas, “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum” (1570). Mercator’s first atlas, published in 1578, contained corrected versions of maps originally drawn by Ptolemy. The atlas he published in 1585 included maps of France, Germany and the Netherlands, and in 1588 he published an atlas with the Balkans and Greece. After his death, Mercator’s son, Rumold, added additional maps in a final part published in 1595.

So Happy birthday Father of Mercator projection  :grin:

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