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I was trying to ask the parent to expand on the many things he was claiming lol

• rspeer 8y ago
  Here's a couple views on Peters and his map projection. An article from "The Map Room" [1] on the argument about Boston public schools having adopted that map, which really dominates Google results right now I guess, but even within the lens of that topic it hits the major points. And here's a "New Internationalist" article about Arno Peters [2] -- it sounds like he was fine as a historian, and I even agree with his motivation for not wanting to plot historical events on a Mercator map, but it sure would have been great if he had learned about the equal-area alternatives to Mercator that Gall and Mollweide and Eckert and other geographers had already made. It's not that I'm against making a map projection to "question Western imperalism". I take more issue with Peters' questioning of basic geometry -- he claimed his map preserves angles, which is clearly false (imagine a NW-SE road meeting a NE-SW road in Ecuador and what that right angle would look like in Gall-Peters), and he claimed that it was the "only" equal-area projection. And I don't think it actually advances the conversation about equality to make a map that looks right in Europe and stretches Africa and South America like taffy. EDIT: left out the links [1] https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/03/the-peters-map-is-fighting-the-last-war/ https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/03/the-peters-map-is-fighti... [2] https://newint.org/features/2003/01/05/arno/ https://newint.org/features/2003/01/05/arno/