Day 9- Mercator and Peters projection maps

Mercator maps are what people see as normal maps. The Mercator map was created in 1569 is was created in Europe to help sailors find their way around the world easier but is still used today by sailors for its characteristics of equal Lat Long. The main reason that people use them is because they are easy to read because the latitude and longitude lines are equal on Mercator maps. Mercator maps are not accurate from how it really looks because it is smaller in the center and makes areas on the north and south bigger but makes Africa and middle American countries smaller. The next thing about Mercator maps is how many people use them. Many big corporations such as Google, Bing, yahoo, apple and more use the Mercator map for their services. The Peters projection map was made to show what the world really looked like and not distort the image like the mercator map. The Peters projection map was created in 1987 to challeng hte mercator The Peters projection map to a lot of people looks wrong and streached because people are used to the mercator map not what the world actually looks like. The Peters projection map is one of the only maps that is not distorted like mercator.