Show threadAlan McConchieAug 21, 2025

Of course, we cartographers will never stop sharing this clip from the West Wing on occasions such as these:

"Why are we changing maps?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLqC3FNNOaI

#PetersProjection #GallPetersProjection #GallPeters #Mercator #MercatorProjection #MapProjections #maps #cartography #CorrectTheMap

Why are we changing maps? (from The West Wing)

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kollektiv orangotangoMay 9, 2025

“Are you saying the map is wrong?”,“Oh dear, yes!” Check out why the Mercator projection should be replaced by the Gall-Peters projection explained in “The West Wing” and get ready for #notanatlas-documentary on Counter-Cartographies coming soon on notanatlas.org

https://youtu.be/vVX-PrBRtTY

(from the archive, 04.11.2019)

#maps #cartography #thewestwing #petersprojection

Gall--Peters Projection

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡Nov 22, 2022
A group of 6 women including several friends and especially my dear friend Anna put 1000 hours into making this #PetersProjection map of beads and bead trading circles. It is breath taking to see and exquisite in every way
DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰOct 20, 2020
#PetersProjection : Amazing, why the Mercator projection is not relevant for #map and why we should prefer the Peters one /> https://www.boredpanda.com/true-size-countries-mercator-map-projection-james-talmage-damon-maneice/
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