Practice question · Select all that apply
What is fair to say about the Peters projection?
Hints
- It preserves area at the cost of shape, and was marketed politically.
- Equal-area projections had existed long before it.
Show the answer
- A. It was marketed explicitly as a political corrective
- B. Cartographers disliked it, and equal-area projections long predated it
- D. It preserves area and distorts shape
Why
All three, and the fourth is the reason for the third, equal-area projections had existed for centuries without the sales pitch. But the argument Peters started was the right one, and it worked.
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