Which map projection do you prefer?

[mo2]

Mercator? Robinson? Miller?

[Luckymama]

Mercator and Miller are too distorted near the poles, in my opinion. They work fine for smaller sections or for areas near the equator.

 

I like Mollweide and Winkel Tripel the best. There are some edge distortions but sizes are shown more accurately than other projections.

 

Dd10 and I learned about projections this week---we did this cool drawing-on-an-orange-then-flattening-the-peel activity and checked out various projections using K12's Human Odyssey vol 1 book and the National Geographic Xpeditions website. It was fun :) (info in my blog, link below)

[idnib]

I like the Peters projection, which you can read about here:

 

http://www.petersmap.com/

 

(Click "Next" to read the other pages.)

[skueppers]

I like Mollweide and Winkel Tripel the best. There are some edge distortions but sizes are shown more accurately than other projections.

 

:iagree:

 

Though I just hung a huge Van der Grinten projection map of the world in my schoolroom, because it was $6 or $7 at Costco and we needed a better wall map