structural:expansion, linguistic:paraphrasing, stylistic:style_transfer, structural:reformatting
Oblique Mercator

An oblique Mercator projection tilts the cylinder axis away from the Earth's axis to an angle of one's choosing, so that its tangent or secant lines of contact are circles that are also tilted relative to the Earth's parallels of latitude. Practical uses for the oblique projection, such as national grid systems, use ellipsoidal developments of the oblique Mercator in order to keep scale variation low along the surface projection of the cylinder’s axis.