Equirectangular projection
MAP PROJECTION THAT MAPS MERIDIANS AND PARALLELS TO VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL STRAIGHT LINES, RESPECTIVELY, PRODUCING A RECTANGULAR GRID
Plate carrée projection; Equidistant cylindrical projection; Equidistant Cylindrical Projection; Plate Carree Projection; Geographic Projection; Geographic projection; Plate Carrée Projection; Equirectangular Projection; Equirectangular; Plate-carré; Square projection; Plate carre; Plate-carre; Plate carré; Plate carree projection; Plate carree; Carte Parallelo-Grammatique Projection; Carte Parallelogrammatique Projection; La Carte Parallelogrammatique; Carte parallelogrammatique projection; Equidirectional projection; Geographical projection; Plate carrée; Rectangular projection; Marinus projection; Marinus map projection; Equirectangular map projection
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.Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections, John P.