Schools across the city have this week introduced a new standard map — and it is sending them into a spin. Authorities hope the introduction of the Gall-Peters projection, replacing the popular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Abimbola Ogundairo saw a pretty wooden map she thought would be great decor for her walls, she did something most regular ...

Boston Public Schools are ditching the traditional world maps many might remember hanging on their classroom walls for something the schools say is more accurate: the Gall-Peters Projection map. The ...

The African Union has called for replacing the venerable Mercator map projection with another one that would show Africa’s ...

The Peters projection, far from being neutral, was produced for a political purpose: to increase the apparent importance of countries which appear small on a Mercator projection due to ...