People my age grew up with a map of the world that had been created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. But in ...

The Robinson map is a partial hybrid between the Mercator and Gall-Peters, taking bits and pieces of each that make it “highly suitable” for world maps according to the study’s authors.

This map is an example of the Gall-Peters Projection, which takes care to demonstrate accurate relative size and location of nations around the world. This map was adopted for use in the Boston Public ...