An article about Gerardus and his projection: http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2012/03/05/mercators-500th-birthday/
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
