Devolution: A beginner's guide. Since 1999, the way the United Kingdom is run has been transformed by devolution-a process designed to decentralise government and give more powers to the three nations which, together with England, make up the UK. The United Kingdom is made up of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Definition of MERCATOR PROJECTION. : a conformal map projection of which the meridians are usually drawn parallel to each other and the parallels of latitude are straight lines whose distance from each other increases with their distance from the equator.ADVERTISEMENT. a conformal map projection of which the meridians are usually drawn parallel to each other and the parallels of latitude are straight lines whose distance from each other increases with their distance from the equator. ADVERTISEMENT.
A modern rendering by John Snyder of the double-cordiform projection used for Mercator's 1538 world map. Reduced slightly from Snyder, Flattening the Earth, 37, fig. 1.27. Mercatorâs next publication was a detailed 34 by 46 inch (87 by 117 cm) map of Flanders, printed as four sheets in 1540. complete history of the Mercator projection, it includes the down-and-dirty details of the flap that Arno Peters created with his misguided egotism and fringe ideas in the cartographic world.â¦This book might accomplish the impossible: actually get the interested layman to understand the basics of map projections.