The Web Mercator projection gets a lot of unfair criticism. One really fair criticism soundless is that Web Mercator is adjacent to useless for providing accurate maps of the Arctic as well as Antarctic.
Recently the WWF released a beautiful online map called ArkGIS. The map includes layers to visualize historical H2O ice as well as snowfall coverage, stone oil as well as gas exploitation as well as data near wild fauna inwards the region.
I can't honour whatsoever data on how the ArkGIS map was created. However yous tin meet that a lot of operate has been seat into creating the map projection as well as styling the map tiles. H5N1 lot to a greater extent than operate than many developers volition desire (or get got time) to undertake when creating interactive maps.
Fortunately, however, at that topographic point is immediately around other solution for anyone who wants to exercise interactive maps of the Arctic. Arctic Web Map is a new Arctic specific spider web mapping tool, consisting of an Arctic-focused tile server, as well as a Leaflet-based customer library.
There are vi Arctic projections available, each using a Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area (LAEA) persuasion of the North Pole region. The Arctic Web Map tiles are compatible amongst Leaflet maps, when used amongst the Proj4JS as well as Proj4Leaflet libraries. The map tiles are available to role gratuitous of accuse for low-traffic users. If yous ask high-traffic role hence yous should contact Arctic Web Map.
