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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 ...
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Mental Floss on MSN3 Controversial Maps From HistoryMany have recognized this similarity and now you’ll often see Peters’s map labeled “The Gall-Peters Projection.” Today, 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 ...
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 ...
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