The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

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Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

German activist Arno Peters declared his Peters Projection as the “only” precise map, and the true alternative to the Mercator model. Peters, whose parents had been imprisoned by Nazis and who focused ...

Critics, though, were quick to call out Peters on two things. The map, observers pointed out, was only distorted differently: Where the Mercator projection makes areas near the poles appear much ...

The Galls-Peters Projection. | Strebe, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0 Cartographers agreed that the Mercator map was outdated, inaccurate, and wasn’t the best way to represent the world’s ...

The Gall-Peters Projection In 1973, Arno Peters, a German filmmaker and journalist, called a press conference to denounce the widely accepted map of the world known as the “Mercator Map.” ...

One wall has a Gall-Peters projection map, showing Africa at the center of the world instead of Europe or North America. The wall facing it has five clocks set to time zones of South Fulton, ...

The Gall-Peters projection map addressed part of this issue by making the landmasses more rounded to what they should look like. However, it distorted the shape of the continents.

Only Gall-Peters projection maps or AuthaGraph maps can be used in classrooms in the State of Nebraska. She knew that. She chose to break the law by using a Mercator map.

As alternatives to the Mercator projection, Nebraska’s new law requires schools to use the Gall-Peters projection map, the AuthaGraph projection map or another equal-area projection map.