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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It also places western Europe in the middle of the map and shows North America and Europe to be bigger than South America and Africa, reports The Guardian. The Gall-Peters projection was created ...

But Boston public schools are gonna change that, kehd. Boston’s map of choice is the Gall-Peters projection, which is used by the United Nations. It’s an “equal-area” map, which means that ...

The three cartographers created the Equal Earth map in response to public schools in Boston adopting another map, the Gall-Peter map projection, to depict the true sizes of the continents in 2017.

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 ...