Mercator Template - Measuring Distance
Thank you again for the response!
I am now transitioning to working with the Mercator template. I transferred my old "flat" map and now am trying to find out how to measure distances in a circular map. Meaning, the distance measure tool is only measuring in a straight line. Is there any way to find out accurately how far my continent is from the North Pole, for example? In the old flat map it was, say, 4,000 km. Now, I plunked it in the right spot vis-a-vis the Equator but the distance from the Pole is not different - something like 5300 km. I guess my question is how can I make sure that my land area (an alternative-geography Europe) is at the right latitude?
I am now transitioning to working with the Mercator template. I transferred my old "flat" map and now am trying to find out how to measure distances in a circular map. Meaning, the distance measure tool is only measuring in a straight line. Is there any way to find out accurately how far my continent is from the North Pole, for example? In the old flat map it was, say, 4,000 km. Now, I plunked it in the right spot vis-a-vis the Equator but the distance from the Pole is not different - something like 5300 km. I guess my question is how can I make sure that my land area (an alternative-geography Europe) is at the right latitude?
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Note that CC3 is completely unaware of the concept of projections, it simply maps to a plane, and does not care about what you are really trying to illustrate. So when it comes to projections, you will need to handle that manually in CC3. As you have already discovered, the distance tool can't handle this either, it only measures straight lines. You will need to to the necessary calculations yourself to get the distances right.