Types of Maps

Today in class we learned the different types of maps. We were also revealed the truth about how the world actually looks compared to what we normally see in classes and posters etc., this is call the Mercator map. This map is a misrepresentation of the way the earth looks because the land masses at the pols appear larger than they actually are on earth. An accurate representation of the world is called the Peters map, even though it may look distorted to our eye, it is actually correct. Everything is to scale, and all the landmasses are the correct size at each pole. We discussed the reasoning as to why the school system and the government chose to use this map as the world map instead of the correct map. We came to the conclusion that the Mercator map was what was always right, and what was always shown, instead of the correct map, that is never shown, because its 'wrong'.