The Mercator & Peters World Map

The Mercator map is a world map projection created by Gerardus Mercator, a geographer and a cartographer. The  Mercator map was established in 1569.  The Mercator map has been used for many things, but is mainly used for navigation. The Mercator Map shows texture for mountain ranges. Another name for that is topography. Topography is a representation on a map of natural features of an area. Unlike the Mercator Map that is used for navigation, the Peters World Map is used to see the correct and accurate size from each countries, to each other. The Peters map was named after Arno Peters and James Gall. In 1855 at a science convention, described this type of map for the first time.

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