There's no single most popular projection, but Mollweide, Winkel Tripel, and perhaps Robinson remain some of the most common. "True representation of land area" and "Incorrect/false representation of land area" are not entirely false statements, but they are too easily read as "Gall-Peters good, Mercator bad!" Which is simply not the case.īut despite the famous West Wing scene, in fact there are many better projections than Gall-Peters for showing the whole world - and they have been and continue to be in use in most major publications related to maps and geography for many, many years. The key phrase here is area: Gall-Peters is designed to preserve relative areas, while Mercator preserves direction and shape. "Peters" (actually Gall-Peters, as Gall came up with the projection long before) is no truer than Mercator overall. Upvotes Follow Unfollow 7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017
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