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[[File:Plate Carrée with Tissot's Indicatrices of Distortion.svg|thumb|upright=1.75|Equirectangular projection with [[Tissot's indicatrix]] of deformation and with the standard parallels lying on the equator]]
[[File:Blue Marble 2002.png|thumb|upright=1.75|True-colour satellite image of Earth in equirectangular projection]]
[[File:World elevation map.png|thumb|upright=1.75| [[Height map]] of planet earth at 2km per pixel, including oceanic [[bathymetry]] information, normalized as 8-bit grayscale. Because of it's easy conversion between x,y pixel information and lat lon, maps like these are very useful for software map renderings]]
The '''equirectangular projection''' (also called the '''equidistant cylindrical projection''' or '''la carte parallélogrammatique projection'''), and which includes the special case of the '''plate carrée projection''' (also called the '''geographic projection''', '''lat/lon projection''', or '''plane chart'''), is a simple [[map projection]] attributed to [[Marinus of Tyre]], who [[Ptolemy]] claims invented the projection about AD 100.<ref>''Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections'', John P. Snyder, 1993, pp. 5–8, {{ISBN|0-226-76747-7}}.</ref>
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