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Does anyone know what the differnece between a Peter Projection is and a Mercator projection????help!

Please help me!! I am so desperate, if not do u know a good website about it or just wish me luck to find info on it!!!

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Answer 1

Here is an article that exactly addresses your question

Answer 2

Look at it this way. You have a flat piece of paper and you want to make a map of a round spherical ball which is the earth. Land masses are going to get streched out squeezed and distorted. Mercator projection is an old idea. It was hanging in the front of the classroom when I was a student 50 years ago. One problem with it, Greenland appeared to be larger than Africa.
The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator, in 1569. It became the standard map projection for nautical purposes because of its ability to represent lines of constant true bearing or true course, known as rhumb lines, as straight line segments.
The Gall-Peters projection is one specialization of a configurable equal-area map projection known as the equal-area cylindric or cylindrical equal-area projection. The Gall-Peters achieved considerable notoriety in the late 20th century as the centerpiece of a controversy surrounding the political implications of map design.

Answer 3

Go to google "im feeling lucky". Or go to www.knowitall.com.org/geography! Or just be patiant! someone clever wiil answer you! Good-luck. Hope you find this helpful! You can also try wikipedia, netwebquest or madwapgeography.