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 controversy is mostly dead. Both projections are seen as ...

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 places ...