Human Geo 9/18 - Mercator vs. Peters Map

Mercator vs. Peters

 Mercator:
- The map you would usually see in a city or other places
- Better for navigating
- Exaggerates areas further away from the equator (making the countries proportions completely off)
- People in the countries closer to the equator are angry because this makes their countries look small, which makes them look inferior.
- Not good for a general world map because of the disproportion
- Because of the common use it may have influenced peoples' view on the world

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Gall-Peters:
- Shows countries at correct proportions
- Some schools have adopted this as their main map
- Controversial
- The way they first presented it came across as hostile to some, since they had seen many other map projections, and once that died down they started another way of presenting the idea and was recognized by NACIS (North American Cartographer Information Society.)
- Probably so controversial due to the fact that is was so different and hard to get your head around

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