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2 unusual facts about Transverse Mercator projection


Transverse Mercator projection

In most applications the Gauss–Krüger is applied to a narrow strip near the central meridians where the differences between the spherical and ellipsoidal versions are small, but nevertheless important in accurate mapping.

In constructing a map on any projection, a sphere is normally chosen to model the earth when the extent of the mapped region exceeds a few hundred kilometers in length in both dimensions.



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