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    The GallPeters projection is a rectangular, equal-area map projection. Like all equal-area projections, it distorts most shapes. It is a cylindrical...
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    The Gall stereographic projection, presented by James Gall in 1855, is a cylindrical projection. It is neither equal-area nor conformal but instead tries...
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    Arno Peters (22 May 1916 – 2 December 2002) was a German historian who developed the Peters world map, based on the GallPeters projection. Peters was...
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    to three different map projections: Gall stereographic; Gall isographic; and Gall orthographic (GallPeters projection). Gall was born on 27 September...
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    use only maps based on the GallPeters projection, a similar cylindrical equal-area projection, or the AuthaGraph projection, beginning in the 2024–2025...
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    response to the decision of the Boston public schools to adopt the Gall-Peters projection for world maps in March 2017, to accurately show the relative sizes...
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    equator.: 156–157  To contrast, equal-area projections such as the Sinusoidal projection and the GallPeters projection show the correct sizes of countries relative...
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    maps. The goal is similar to that of other equal-area projections (such as the GallPeters projection), but the Hobo–Dyer is billed by the publisher as "more...
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    projection GallPeters projection (mentions a resolution rejecting the use of all rectangular world maps) List of map projections Mercator projection...
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    Mercator projection or on the Gall-Peters projection, a circle of latitude is perpendicular to all meridians. On the ellipsoid or on spherical projection, all...
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    used in East Asian and Oceania countries) GallPeters projection, an equal-area map projection Robinson projection, formerly used by National Geographic Society...
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    social history of the Mercator projection and GallPeters projections.) Smyth, C. Piazzi. (1870). On an Equal-Surface Projection and its Anthropological Applications...
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    of shapes of areas, notably when compared to the GallPeters projection. Other compromise projections attempt a similar trade-off. More unusually, the...
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    projection Equirectangular projection – less distorted, but not equal-area GallPeters projection – an equal-area cylindrical projection Jordan Transverse Mercator...
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  • Thumbnail for Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection
    variations, particularly the GallPeters projection, are more commonly encountered in maps than Lambert’s original projection due to their lower distortion...
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    degrees north or south of the Equator. On a Mercator projection or on a Gall-Peters projection, each meridian is perpendicular to all circles of latitude...
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    The projection is named after James Gall, who presented it in 1855. GallPeters projection Gall stereographic projection Gall Isographic Projection, from...
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    k=1.414). This gives rise to the gross distortion of shape in the Gall-Peters projection. (On the globe Africa is about as long as it is broad). Note that...
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    Lambert cylindrical equal-area (0°) Behrmann (30°) Hobo–Dyer (37°30′) GallPeters (45°) Pseudocylindrical Boggs eumorphic Collignon Eckert II, IV and VI...
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    played Dr. John Fallow in a West Wing episode that featured the GallPeters projection map (season 2, episode 16). He was cast as Professor Miles Ballard...
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    T and O maps, polar maps, and Dymaxion maps. Map projection North–South divide Gall-Peters projection Philosophy of geography "The 'Blue Marble' Shot Through...
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  • superiority, European imperialism was contemporarily justified. GallPeters projection#Cartographic reception Painter, Joe, and Jeffrey, Alex. Political...
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    3–10. doi:10.1177/089124249701100101. S2CID 154678238. Using the Gall-Peters Projection it is estimated that come 2015 the worlds urban population is set...
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    the article on the Mercator projection. See the critique of the Mercator and other projections in GallPeters projection Statues in Rupelmonde, Duisburg...
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    the Gall stereographic projection are distributed with the same spacing as those on the central meridian of the transverse stereographic projection. The...
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    Tissot's indicatrix (category Map projections)
    in 1859 and 1871 in order to characterize local distortions due to map projection. It is the geometry that results from projecting a circle of infinitesimal...
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  • This is a summary of map projections that have articles of their own on Wikipedia or that are otherwise notable. Because there is no limit to the number...
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    stereographic projection is a perspective projection of the sphere, through a specific point on the sphere (the pole or center of projection), onto a plane...
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    Azimuthal equidistant projection maps The azimuthal equidistant projection is an azimuthal map projection. It has the useful properties that all points...
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  • this distortion highlighted by Ali Mazrui was made by Arno Peters’ 1967 Peter’s Projection Map which depicted a more accurate measurement of the respective...
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