#peters map

[etceteradotmind]

The Peters Map is an Area Accurate projection of the earths surface. With the traditional Mercator Map (circa 1569, and still in use in many schoolrooms and boardrooms today), Greenland and Africa look the same size. But in reality, Africa is 14 times larger! In repsonse to such discrepancies, Dr. Arno Peters created a new world map that dramatically improves the accuracy of how we see the Earth.

[lindae]

[jamesdrobinson-blog]

It's impossible to portray the reality of the spherical world on a flat map. The familiar 'Mercator' projection gives the right shapes of land masses (up to a point), but at the cost of distorting their sizes in favour of the wealthy lands to the north. 

The German Arno Peters sought to correct this. His projection gets the proportions (roughly) right, and has the e

[therealityinstitute]

Mercator maps vs Peters maps in the West Wing