Straight lines curve. Some projections, such as Mercator, aim to excel at one of these concerns, which aggravates other errors. Other maps compromise, like the Winkel Tripel, so named because it ...

I usually work on general relativity and cosmology. I have always loved geometrical things. As a kid I was fascinated by map projections. When I was 14, I made a painted globe of Mars based on a ...

The Winkel Tripel projection, designed in 1921, is the National Geographic Society's preferred flat map, but even this has issues with distortion, particularly regarding the Pacific Ocean ...

According to the team's rating system, the top-rated flat map projection is the Winkel Tripel, a map that originated in 1921, when German cartographer Oswald Winkel proposed it, and which the ...

In the US and Germany, for example, maps based on the so-called Winkel Tripel projection, which has a smaller skewness, started to replace the Mercator in the 1920s.

Other map projection systems include the Cassini, Miller, the Gauss — Krüger, the Winkel tripel, the Times and the Hammer. All have their own advantages and disadvantages and cartographers are ...

A globe, for instance, would get a perfect zero. By their calculations, the Mercator projection scores 8.296 and Winkel Tripel does better at 4.563. Their own azimuthal equidistant double-sided ...

The well-known Mercator projection, which created a square map of the world by stretching the polar regions, received a score of 8.296 on their scale. The Winkel Tripel projection used an oblong ...

To make matters even more complicated, tons of map projections exist. A popular one is the Winkel tripel projection, invented by Oswald Winkel in 1921 and named for his "tripel" (German for ...

In 2007, Gott and his colleague David Goldberg developed a system for scoring maps based on measurement of distortions within it, finding that the Winkel-Tripel projection scored the best for ...