Well, I actually did some playing around. and did this:

created a plane equatorial map indicating longitude and latitude cells using Excel.
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generated a few maps using Nortantis and placed imported them into my excel sheet.
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For the Pole, I generated another map using Nortantis, imported it into photoshop - Filter - Distort - Polar coordinates - Polar to rectangular. and applied to the excel map sheet.
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Once I did that, I applied the map to "map to globe" (https://www.maptoglobe.com/)
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Now I can work with the map to make it appear natural and place the plates using photoshop.