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Five Maps That Will Change How You See The World
Thursday, March 23, 2017 17:58
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from The Conversation
– this post authored by Donald Houston, University of Portsmouth
Boston public schools recently announced that they will shift to using world maps based on the Peters projection, reportedly the first time a US public school district has done so. Why? Because the Peters projection accurately shows different countries’ relative sizes. Although it distorts countries’ shapes, this way of drawing a world map avoids exaggerating the size of developed nations in Europe and North America and reducing the size of less developed countries in Asia, Africa and South America.
Source: http://econintersect.com/pages/contributors/contributor.php?post=201703231939
