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Patterson Cylindrical

 

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  Patterson Cylindrical
Creator Tom Patterson, Bojan Savric, Bernhard Jenny (2014)
Group Cylindric
Property Compromise
Other Names
Remarks The Patterson cylindrical balances polar exaggeration against maintaining the familiar shape of continents.

Read Introducing the Patterson Cylindrical Projection on cartographicperspectives.org.

Here on map-projections.net there’s an article about Patterson Cylindrical.

Note: Up to the end of 2019 I showed a wrong rendition of the Patterson projection here (having a false aspect ratio). The current image is correct. Read the blogpost about this.

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