A Conformal Projection: The Mercator Map
Task: Exploring Mercator
Move Point C around and play with the red sliders in the applet for this Mercator mapping. See what happens.
Question: Lost Properties (Mercator)
Which of the three things (distance, area, angles) get distorted here with the conformal, Mercator projection?
Question: Retained Properties (Mercator)
Which of the three properties get preserved (HINT: Try move point C close to point B)?