{"id":3269,"date":"2012-04-08T18:57:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T16:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpoma.net\/carto\/?p=3269"},"modified":"2012-04-08T18:57:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T16:57:59","slug":"el-cabezon-de-mercator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpoma.net\/carto\/?p=3269","title":{"rendered":"El cabez\u00f3n de Mercator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, el viejo Mercator no era un cabez\u00f3n, al menos que sepamos, pero su forma de ver el mundo puede crear verdaderos cabezones y hasta dolores de cabeza, veamos. La <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/74\/Mercator-projection.jpg\/774px-Mercator-projection.jpg\">proyecci\u00f3n de Mercator<\/a><\/strong> ha calado tanto en la mente de occidente, y en realidad en la de casi todo el mundo, que <strong>es admitida por muchos como la \u00abversi\u00f3n correcta\u00bb dentro de los <em>mapamundis<\/em><\/strong>. Lo malo del caso es que, a fuerza de ser repetida en miles de mapas a lo largo de la historia, <strong>es dif\u00edcil hacer ver que las deformaciones introducidas por la proyecci\u00f3n de Mercator son grandes<\/strong>, y lo que es peor, cuando se mencionan alternativas como la <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/70\/Arno_Peters-Projektion.JPG\">proyecci\u00f3n de Gall-Peters<\/a><\/strong>, muchas veces el resultado es un sonoro \u00ab\u00a1vaya mapa m\u00e1s feo!\u00bb. Por eso, esta l\u00e1mina que procede del cl\u00e1sico <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.es\/books?id=0QnlAAAAMAAJ&#038;pg=PA51&#038;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">Elements of map projection<\/a><\/strong><\/em> puede ser de mucha utilidad. V\u00e9ase el cabez\u00f3n de abajo a la derecha, deformado siguiendo una proyecci\u00f3n de Mercator. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alpoma\/6911222656\/\" title=\"mercator_cabeza by alpoma, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5155\/6911222656_819d91c4e3_o.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"471\" alt=\"mercator_cabeza\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>| V\u00eda <a href=\"http:\/\/fuckyeahcartography.tumblr.com\/post\/20648105292\/yoshang-fig-45-mans-head-plotted-on\">fuck yeah cartography!<\/a> |<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>No, el viejo Mercator no era un cabez\u00f3n, al menos que sepamos, pero su forma de ver el mundo puede crear verdaderos cabezones y hasta <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alpoma.net\/carto\/?p=3269\" title=\"El cabez\u00f3n de Mercator\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cartografia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/alpoma.net\/carto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/6911222656_819d91c4e3_o.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p93Co9-QJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7087,"url":"https:\/\/alpoma.net\/carto\/?p=7087","url_meta":{"origin":3269,"position":0},"title":"Google Maps dice \u00abadi\u00f3s\u00bb a Mercator (pero s\u00f3lo en ciertas escalas)","author":"alpoma","date":"agosto 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Detalle curioso el que nos descubre Google Maps en su nueva actualizaci\u00f3n de agosto de 2018 en su versi\u00f3n para escritorio (desktop edition, no as\u00ed en la versi\u00f3n m\u00f3vil, aunque todo parece indicar que el cambio tambi\u00e9n se llevar\u00e1 a cabo en esa versi\u00f3n en breve). 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