Spicing up the Blogs

Today we compared the Peter Projection Map and The Mercator Map. Here are the notes I took:

Mercator Map:

• The standard map we use everyday
• Originally presented by Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator
• Became popular because of its property of representing any course of constant bearing as a straight segment 
• Marines use the mercator map 
• geographically incorrect

Peter Projection Map:

• Geographically correct
• Basically like the mercator map just with an accurate representation oof Greenland, Africa, and South America
• Made in 1885