Gall Peters Projection Distortion

The polar areas contain even more shape distortion. That means it must distort most of the displayed shapes to achieve this goal. Unsatisfied by the distorted view of the world that dominated the western mind in the form of the mercator projection, james gall and, later, arno peters engineered a new map in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The map is not very accurate as the distortion in the map causes high latitute countries to be scaled larger than they actually are. Arno peters claimed authorship in 1973, apparently having independently developed it in 1967, and promoted the projection and cartography built on it thereafter. It was presented by german historian and journalist arno peters in 1973 (rosenberg,.

The polar areas contain even more shape distortion.

It cannot be used to navigate with. The peters world map is an equal area cylindrical projection with standard parallels at 45 degrees thus resulting in a distortion of shape which is stretched about the equator and squashed towards the poles, but having the great advantage that all countries are correct in. There is no distortion at the equator, but sizes gradually. Countries are stretched horizontally near the poles and vertically near the equator, so although the size may be right, the shape definitely isn't.