<Li> Hammer retroazimuthal--also preserves distance from the central point </Li> <Li> Craig retroazimuthal aka Mecca or Qibla--also has vertical meridians </Li> <P> Compromise projections give up the idea of perfectly preserving metric properties, seeking instead to strike a balance between distortions, or to simply make things "look right". Most of these types of projections distort shape in the polar regions more than at the equator . These are some compromise projections: </P> <Ul> <Li> Robinson </Li> <Li> van der Grinten </Li> <Li> Miller cylindrical </Li> <Li> Winkel Tripel </Li> <Li> Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion </Li> <Li> B.J.S. Cahill's Butterfly Map </Li> <Li> Kavrayskiy VII projection </Li> <Li> Wagner VI projection </Li> <Li> Chamberlin trimetric </Li> <Li> Oronce Finé's cordiform </Li> </Ul>

Why does a map projection distort earth's features