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The Gall–Peters projection of the world map. The Gall–Peters projection is a rectangular, equal-area map projection. Like all equal-area projections, it distorts most shapes. It is a cylindrical equal-area projection with latitudes 45° north and south as the regions on the map that have no distortion.
Gall–Peters = Gall orthographic = Peters: Cylindrical Equal-area ... A family of map projections that includes as special cases Mollweide projection, Collignon ...
The map engendered controversy. The map projection Peters claimed to have developed had been presented more than a century earlier by the Reverend James Gall, and, despite Peters's claims, the projection was not the first or only equal-area projection. Many other of his claims were disputed or debunked.
A controversy in the 1980s over the Peters map motivated the American Cartographic Association (now the Cartography and Geographic Information Society) to produce a series of booklets (including Which Map Is Best [46]) designed to educate the public about map projections and distortion in maps. In 1989 and 1990, after some internal debate ...
The Gall–Peters projection of the world map Carrubbers Close Mission Moray Free Church, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh James Gall's grave, Grange Cemetery. James Gall (27 September 1808 – 7 February 1895) was a Scottish clergyman who founded the Carrubbers Close Mission. [1] He was also a cartographer, publisher, sculptor, astronomer and author.
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Others have created alternative projections over the years that tried to do better justice to the Earth’s geographical scale. In recent years, many have advocated for the Gall-Peters projection, which depicts the size of each continent more accurately — but creates more unfamiliar shapes: Credit: Strebe / Wikimedia Commons
English: The Peters projection with corrected date line in the Bering strait, 168°45' West of Greenwich, proposed by Arno Peters. On his world map the easternmost part of Russia is not displayed left of Alaska, as it is usually done. Instead, it is on the right with the rest of Russia.