The Gall–Peters projection is a rectangular, equal-area map projection. Like all equal-area projections, it distorts most shapes. It is a cylindrical...

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...

use only maps based on the Gall–Peters projection, a similar cylindrical equal-area projection, or the AuthaGraph projection, beginning in the 2024–2025...

projection Equirectangular projection – less distorted, but not equal-area Gall–Peters projection – an equal-area cylindrical projection Jordan Transverse Mercator...

to three different map projections: Gall stereographic; Gall isographic; and Gall orthographic (Gall–Peters projection). Gall was born on 27 September...

maps. The goal is similar to that of other equal-area projections (such as the Gall–Peters projection), but the Hobo-Dyer is billed by the publisher as "more...

equator.: 156–157  To contrast, equal-area projections such as the Sinusoidal projection and the Gall–Peters projection show the correct sizes of countries relative...

Arno Peters (22 May 1916 – 2 December 2002) was a German historian who developed the Peters world map, based on the Gall–Peters projection. Peters was...

projection Gall–Peters projection (mentions a resolution rejecting the use of all rectangular world maps) List of map projections Mercator projection...

social history of the Mercator projection and Gall–Peters projections.) Smyth, C. Piazzi. (1870). On an Equal-Surface Projection and its Anthropological Applications...

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...

of shapes of areas, notably when compared to the Gall–Peters projection. Other compromise projections attempt a similar trade-off. More unusually, the...

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...

The Gall stereographic projection, presented by James Gall in 1855, is a cylindrical projection. It is neither equal-area nor conformal but instead tries...

used in East Asian and Oceania countries) Gall–Peters projection, an equal-area map projection Robinson projection, formerly used by National Geographic Society...

The projection is named after James Gall, who presented it in 1855. Gall–Peters projection Gall stereographic projection Gall Isographic Projection, from...

variations, particularly the Gall–Peters projection, are more commonly encountered in maps than Lambert’s original projection due to their lower distortion...

The Winkel tripel projection (Winkel III), a modified azimuthal map projection of the world, is one of three projections proposed by German cartographer...

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...

played Dr. John Fallow in a West Wing episode that featured the Gall–Peters projection map (season 2, episode 16). He was cast as Professor Miles Ballard...

Lambert cylindrical equal-area (0°) Behrmann (30°) Hobo–Dyer (37°30′) Gall–Peters (45°) Pseudocylindrical Boggs eumorphic Collignon Eckert II, IV and VI...

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...

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...

Peter, Canadian pedagogue – Peter principle. Arno Peters, German historian – Gall–Peters projection. Alexander Petrov, Russian chess player – Petrov's...

known as the Babinet projection, homalographic projection, homolographic projection, and elliptical projection. The projection trades accuracy of angle...

the Gall stereographic projection are distributed with the same spacing as those on the central meridian of the transverse stereographic projection. The...

The Robinson projection is a map projection of a world map that shows the entire world at once. It was specifically created in an attempt to find a good...

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...

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...

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...