About the Free Mercator Relief Maps
Our free Mercator shaded relief maps feature a latitude-longitude border,
a height legend, and a title. Each map is approximately 5.3 megapixels in size, big enough
to fill an A4 or Letter-size sheet at a minimum printing resolution of 100 dpc/250dpi (the
printing resolution of each map is preset to achieve this).
The Mercator projection gets a bad press these days because, we understand, the
exaggeration of map scale at high latitudes might warp young minds into believing Greenland is
as large as Africa, to use a frequent example. However, it has served humanity well for
centuries, and we consider that it remains a fine projection, particularly for smaller areas
and for navigation.
Files are high quality .jpg files - we recommend you save them
in uncompressed (.bmp) or lossless-compressed (.tif, .png) format after first opening
them.
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