http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardus_Mercator
Gerardus Mercator was born on March 5, 1512 in Rupelmonde in what is now Belgium. He is primarily known as the cartographer who invented the Mercator projection, of which the spherical variant is used by various online map websites like Google Maps, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, and of course, OpenStreetMap. In addition, Merkaartor, one of the main OSM editors is also named after him. :-) _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
