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Baker Dinomic vs. Mercator

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	Baker Dinomic	Mercator
Creator	J. G. P. Baker (1986)	Gerardus Mercator (1569)
Group	Miscellaneous	Cylindric
Property	Compromise	Conformal
Other Names	—	—
Remarks	Identical with Mercator projection from the equator up to 45° North/South.	Cut off at 84° North and South
recommended comparisons	Mercator	Baker Dinomic Braun Perspective Central Cylindrical Kavraiskiy I
This pairing is among the list of recommended pairings – but why? Baker Dinomic is identical to Mercator between 45° North and 45° South. This is quite obvious in the scaled to same width comparisons.