Of course, Peters had a suggestion on how to fix this problem: his own map. The Peters Projection map claimed to show the world in a more accurate, equal-area fashion. Because Peters’s map ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Picture: Wikicommons The Gall-Peters projection shows Greenland and Alaska is much smaller while Europe is smaller than South America. The map debate and which one is more accurate still continues ...

Pretty different to how you imagined… right? The map, introduced by public schools in Boston this week, changed students’ views of the world instantly. Nude images and sex tape of WWE star ...

Bob Abramms, the owner of ODT, the exclusive publisher and distributor in North America of what are known as the Peters Projection maps, said he appreciates the decision by school administrators ...

The distortion created so much angst that in the 1970s there was a push to replace it with the Gall-Peters projection, reports Metrocosm. This map is an equal area projection, which means ...

Students throughout Boston are getting a radically different view of the world, one laminated 24-by-36-inch sheet of paper at a time. Beginning last Thursday, Boston Public Schools administrators ...

Boston’s public schools have been rolling out the Gall-Peters projection maps in social studies classes, as it “more accurately reflects the size of the world,” Dan O'Brien, press secretary ...