Editing Map projection (section)

===Compromise projections===
[[File:Usgs map robinson.PNG|thumb|upright=2|The [[Robinson projection]] was adopted by ''[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]]'' magazine in 1988 but abandoned by them in about 1997 for the [[Winkel tripel projection|Winkel tripel]].]]

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:
* [[Robinson projection|Robinson]]
* [[Van der Grinten projection|van der Grinten]]
* [[Miller cylindrical projection|Miller cylindrical]]
* [[Winkel tripel projection|Winkel Tripel]]
* [[Dymaxion map|Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion]]
* [[Bernard J. S. Cahill|B. J. S. Cahill's Butterfly Map]]
* [[Kavrayskiy VII projection]]
* [[Wagner VI projection]]
* [[Chamberlin trimetric projection|Chamberlin trimetric]]
* [[Oronce Finé]]'s cordiform
* [[AuthaGraph projection]]