N51° E6° - Gangelt, DE
N 50° 59.956 E 005° 59.923
31U E 710402 N 5654024
Please do not go to the Confluence point as it is in the middle of a field and the farmer won't be happy. At N 50° 59.956 E 005° 59.923 is a memorial for Mercator. Please use this point to log the WM.
Waymark Code: WM186CB
Location: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Date Posted: 06/08/2023
Views: 3
Confluence Point N51° E6°
Please do not go to the Confluence point as it is in the middle of a field and the farmer won't be happy.
At N 50° 59.956 E 005° 59.923 is a memorial for Mercator. Please use this point to log the WM.
You can park here:
N 50° 59.732' E 005° 59.959
Gerhard Mercator spent part of his youth in Gangelt from 1512 to probably 1518. The most important geographer of the 16th century. He was the first to construct maps on which the course of a ship could be plotted as a straight line. His knowledge of how to conformally transfer the spherical earth to a flat map is still used today. The overarching coordinate system is known as the UTM system and is created using the universal Mercator projection.
Parking: N 50° 59.732 W 005° 59.959
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