Patterson Projection

Patterson Cylindrical

Designed by Tom Patterson and Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso in 2014 as a modern alternative to the Miller cylindrical. It stretches latitudes progressively toward the poles to give polar regions a more natural look than Mercator, while keeping the familiar rectangular grid.

Preserves
Visual clarity of land masses
Distorts
Area at high latitudes
Group
Cylindrical
Weirdness
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