The Peters Projection map claimed to show the world in a more accurate, equal-area fashion. Because Peters’s map showed the ...

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 ...

However, it is impossible for two-dimensional maps to show the actual size ... a map with the real size of the continents would simply be unusable. It’s the Mercator’s projection,” explained ...