👍 New Map Projection Meets Cartographic Needs and Desires
For all GIS nerds:
Check out this interesting blog post around projections:
https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/arcuser/equal-earth/
The Equal Earth projection was created in response to a wave of news stories in 2017 following the Boston Public Schools announcement that it was switching to the Gall-Peters projection for all classroom world maps. These articles erroneously asserted that the Gall-Peters projection was the only equal-area projection that shows land features at their true relative sizes, despite the consensus about inappropriateness of this projection for small-scale mapping.
Check out this interesting blog post around projections:
https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/arcuser/equal-earth/
The Equal Earth projection was created in response to a wave of news stories in 2017 following the Boston Public Schools announcement that it was switching to the Gall-Peters projection for all classroom world maps. These articles erroneously asserted that the Gall-Peters projection was the only equal-area projection that shows land features at their true relative sizes, despite the consensus about inappropriateness of this projection for small-scale mapping.