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 ...

Many have recognized this similarity and now you’ll often see Peters’s map labeled “The Gall-Peters Projection.” Today, the ...

Now, for the first time, thousands of children in schools in the United States will use a very different map, the Gall-Peters projection. About 600 school classrooms in Boston, Massachusetts ...

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 ...

"Maps that they are presented with generally ... Enter Peters' projection — which is also known as the Gall-Peters projection, since it's virtually identical to a projection put forward by ...

However, the biggest insult to cartographers was the Peters projection itself. It was essentially the same map devised in 1855 by a cartographer named James Gall. Many have recognized this similar ...

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 ...

The Gall-Peters projection was created by James Gall and Arno Peters in 1855. Date of map: August 15, 2011 Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you ...

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 ...

It turned out James Gall had done the same in 1855, and the map became known as the Gall-Peters map. Each area on the map represents an equal area of land. It might look strange to those who are ...