TRANSLATOR

Hi everybody! I am Andrea Bermúdez and my role on this week has been “Translator”. My task consists in choosing the most representative five words on the work of this week. The words that I have chosen are map projection, treasure hunt, Mercator projection, Robinson projection and Azimuthal projection.

Map projection

A map projection is a representation of the Earth that can transform its surface, latitude, longitude or location, depending of the projection that we use. It is necessary to create maps. All map projections distort the surface in some fashion. Depending of the map projection, we can see a distortion or another. However, map projection refers to a cartographic projection.

Treasure hunt

"Treasure hunt" is a game (in this case for children of primary education) that consists in find some articles, locations, places or whatever hidden using clues. In addition, we can talk about “Scavenger Hunt” that is a game in which the organizers prepare a list defining specific items and the participants have to seek to gather all items on the list.

Azimuthal projection

The azimuthal projection is a map projection, which the main feature of this projection is that, depending from you look at the Earth, the distortion will be different. All points on the map are at proportionately correct distances from the center point, from which you look the map.  

Mercator projection

The Mercator projection is the cartographic projection that we use at schools for learning geography. This projection distorts the size and shape of large objects and as we move from Ecuador to Poles, the distortion is greater. It converts the round surfaces in plane surfaces. 

Robinson projection

Robinson created this map projection to show the world in a plane surface. There is a big distortion close to the poles. The range of acceptable distortion in this map is usually 45 degrees from north to south. In this map, we also can see that Ecuador is not in the center of the map, as it should be. 

In conclusion, I have selected these terms for you because I think that they are the most important terms of the topic of this week and they are the words that you have to know, as we have learnt too. I hope that you like it and that you can learn a little more about this topic. 

See you!