As a remedy for this bias, Peters proposed that the Gall-Peters projection map be used instead. In 2017, Boston Public Schools became the first school district in the United States to get rid of ...

Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to ...

This map is an example of the Gall-Peters Projection, which takes care to demonstrate accurate relative size and location of nations around the world. This map was adopted for use in the Boston Public ...

First created by 19th-century Scottish map maker James Gall and later published by German cartographer Arno Peters in 1974, the Gall-Peters projection distorts the continents' shapes somewhat ...

This map is an example of the Gall-Peters Projection, which takes care to demonstrate accurate relative size and location of nations around the world. This map was adopted for use in the Boston Public ...