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Not only is this lifted without proper attribution from someone else's work; the only added content is the words "Peter's projection" at the start, which in the
by gjm11 13y ago
Not only is this lifted without proper attribution from someone else's work; the only added content is the words "Peter's projection" at the start, which in the space of two words manages to make all of the following mistakes:
1. The person's name is Peters; the "s" is not possessive.
2. The projection was devised independently by two people; Gall got there before Peters. It's therefore usually called Gall-Peters nowadays.
3. The map shown does not use the Gall-Peters projection, either for Africa or for any of the other regions fitted into it. (It's all Mercator, but with Africa scaled up to make its area correct.) The appearance of Africa in the Gall-Peters projection is unusual enough that no one who actually knew anything much about maps would make this mistake.
4. The Economist article to which the page links has its own version of the "true size of Africa" graphic (which is not the one looted for the "Brain Junk" page) that uses a different projection also devised by Gall. But this is also not the "Peters projection" but a quite different one.
I suppose those mistakes are what Tariq Rauf is asserting the copyright on.
(It may be worth noting that Kai Krause seems to have explicitly put his graphic in the public domain, so there's nothing illegal in what Tariq Rauf has done here. That doesn't stop it being extremely unimpressive.)