Winkel Tripel Projection
National Geographic Standard
National Geographic's choice since 1998. Oswald Winkel designed it in 1921 by averaging the Aitoff projection with the equirectangular. 'Tripel' means triple — it minimises three distortions simultaneously: area, direction, and distance. The gold standard for general-purpose world maps.
- Preserves
- Overall visual balance — minimises all distortions
- Distorts
- Everything slightly, nothing severely
- Group
- Pseudocylindrical
- Weirdness
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