On the left, wind velocities at the planet’s surface can be seen overlaid atop an orthographic projection. Below, a Winkel tripel projection serves as a backdrop to wind-velocity data first at ...

The Winkel Tripel projection, chosen by the National Geographic for its world maps, represents the poles more accurately than the Mercator, but it still distorts Antarctica badly and creates the ...

Think ‘world map’ and your mind probably jumps to the elliptical Winkel tripel projection, often seen in textbooks and incorporated in world news logos. It’s pretty ubiquitous, but is just ...

In the Mercator and Winkel tripel projections, distance errors blow up as one approaches the poles and boundary cuts. Our maps can be cut out of, or inserted loose-leaf into, a magazine.

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 tries to strike a ...

From the famously misleading Mercator projection to lesser-known alternatives like the Gall-Peters or Winkel Tripel projections, we explore how mapmakers have warped our sense of geography for ...

The Winkel Tripel still has some distortion on the north and south poles, but it does a better job than many others. For an accurate depiction of the world, the Winkel Tripel projection is a safe ...

The Winkel Tripel projection world map was first designed in 1921. Notice how it distorts Antarctica and creates the illusion that Japan is very far away from California.

Yes, we realize this is a compromise projection (a Winkel Tripel projection, to be exact) and that the “circle” in this image is not actually a circle, but that’s besides the point.