Polar map projection? I don't know what they're called...

…but I like them. The only time I see them are in news articles that talk about Canada. Can you help me find a map projection that uses the North Pole as the center of the map, rather than the Atlantic? Something like this but that includes the rest of the world.

Are you referring to Buckminster Fuller’smap of the world?

You can pretty much center any kind of projection you want on Canada, to greater or lesser success. A map that is centered on either of the poles is, interestingly enough, called a “polar projection”. You’d have interesting results, however, trying to show the rest of the world in such a projection, since by the time the projection reaches the equator, it becomes so badly distorted it is of nary a use, and it cannot possibly project anything BEYOND the equator.

If you can give us an idea of what use you’d like to put the map to, I’m sure there’s some map out there that’d best suit your needs.

Perhaps one of the Azimuthal Projections?

No, but I like that!

I guess what I’m looking for is, say, a Peters or Mercator projection (or similar) centered on the North Pole. I know those projections get distorted but…well…they’re distorted centered on the Atlantic, too. Or any other maps with an unusual (i.e., not Western) perspective.

Then perhaps one of the conformal projections?

If you are interested in map projections, get a copy of Flattening The Earth by J.P.Snyder.
My personal fave polar projection is Peirce’s Quincuncial (about half way down)