Winkel tripel projection
Proyección de Winkel-Tripel
- Date
- 1921 · confidence high
- Place
- Gotha, Germany
- Credited to
- Oswald Winkel
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What it is
Modified map projection, the average of the equirectangular and Aitoff projections, proposed by cartographer Oswald Winkel to minimise area, direction and distance distortion simultaneously.
What it led to
- Adoption by the National Geographic Society as the standard projection for its world maps (1998)
- Widespread use in atlases and general cartography for its low combined distortion