Greetings, I am a forester trying to answer a cartography question
A client has asked for a file of their management overlaid with latitude bands in 0.1 degree increments.
Their management area is best represented in UTM Zone 11N and what I typically deliver their products in, and I had a colleague generate bands of latitude for me, but they came in WGS 1984. If I project the WGS84 file to Zone 11N then I have a lot of distortion at the midpoints of the latitude bands (this was expected), so I would like to minimize the distortion.
Is there a "best option" or a middle ground that I could project these files to that would minimize the latitude distortions and still give me the area calculations I would expect from Zone 11N, or keep them close?
Thanks and best regards.
Dan