The three cartographers created the Equal Earth map in response to public schools in Boston adopting another map, the Gall-Peter map projection, to depict the true sizes of the continents in 2017.

who claimed he invented it — though well after the discovery of an identical map made by James Gall in the 1800s. The Gall-Peters projection (shown below) makes seeing the relative size of ...

Schools across the city have this week introduced a new standard map — and it is sending them into a spin. Authorities hope the introduction of the Gall-Peters projection, replacing the popular ...

It also places western Europe in the middle of the map and shows North America and Europe to be bigger than South America and Africa, reports The Guardian. The Gall-Peters projection was created ...

But Boston public schools are gonna change that, kehd. Boston’s map of choice is the Gall-Peters projection, which is used by the United Nations. It’s an “equal-area” map, which means that ...

Now, for the first time, thousands of children in schools in the United States will use a very different map, the Gall-Peters projection. About 600 school classrooms in Boston, Massachusetts ...