projections

Question 1

Mercator Characteristics

Answer 1

• Cylindrical - can be secant or tangent
• Parallels + Meridians are straight lines and cross on another at 90°
• Areas and shapes of large areas like continents are usually distored.
• The poles are typically not shown
• Any straight line on a mercator map is a rhumb line

Question 2

Rhumb Line

Answer 2

line of constant angular direction

Question 3

UTM

Answer 3

Universal Transverse Mercator

Question 4

Universal transverse Mercator (UTM)

Answer 4

is a coordinate system based on a cartesian coordinate system.

Question 5

UTM is composed of…

Answer 5

60 zones, each of 6°longitude wide, with a central meridian place every sixth meridian beginning with 177° west longitude.

Question 6

Each UTM zone has…

Answer 6

both a north and a south zone

Question 7

Origin of the zone (UTM)

Answer 7

the intersection of the Central Meridian of a UTM zone and the Equator

Question 8

Each zone has a false …

Answer 8

False easting of 500,000 m west of the zone’s central meridian.