The U.S. Census Bureau, for example, produces a map each decade showing the location of the country’s center, summarizing the geographic distribution of the national population.

By their calculations, the Mercator projection scores 8.296 and Winkel Tripel does better at 4.563. Their own azimuthal equidistant double-sided projection, meanwhile, scores 0.881.

Little Planets : The Picture Show The hunt for Earth-like planets is over: We found them on Flickr. In simple terms, a polar panoramic, or stereographic projection, is a way to map a sphere as a ...