Mercator Explained

Mercator (Latin for "merchant") often refers to the Mercator projection, a cartographic projection named after its inventor, Gerardus Mercator.

Mercator may refer to:

People

Marius Mercator (c. 390 - 451), a Catholic ecclesiastical writer
Arnold Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer
Gerardus Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer
- Mercator 1569 world map
- Mercator projection
Rumold Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer
Nicholas Mercator, a 17th-century mathematician
- Mercator series, a representation of the natural logarithm

Mercator (retail), a Slovenian supermarket chain
Mercator-S, a retail company in Serbia, part of Agrokor Group
Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Mercator Limited, a shipping company in India
Mercator Corporation, a consulting firm and investment bank formed by James Giffen, involved with Kazakhgate

Mercator (ship), a barquentine museum ship in Oostende, Belgium
P4M Mercator, a reconnaissance aircraft used by the United States Navy during the 1950s
QinetiQ Mercator, a British unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
and, a number of ships named Mercator

Mercator Telescope, a Belgian telescope installed in La Palma, Canary Islands
Mercator K55K, a type of pocketknife produced in Germany
Mercator (play), a comedic play by Plautus
IBM InfoSphere DataStage, software whose component DataStage TX was formerly known as Mercator and is now called WebSphere Transformation Extender
"Mercator", a song by P-MODEL from the album Perspective II
Mercator (crater), a lunar impact crater on the southwestern edge of Mare Nubium