Our Family Station in St Pancras is open from 10.00-12.00 every Friday and we're continuing to welcome schools, as well as families and adult learners to our courses and access events. All our in-person and livestreamed events are going ahead. Other services Maps not only represent the world, they shape the way we see it. The revolutionary Peters Projection map presents countries in their true proportion to one another: it has been adopted by the UN, aid agencies, schools and businesses around the world. WHAT IS THE PETERS MAP The Gall–Peters projection achieved notoriety in the late 20th century as the centerpiece of a controversy about the political implications of map design. [5] Description [ edit ] The Gall–Peters cylindrical equal-area projection with Tissot's indicatrices of deformation Formula [ edit ]

Maps based on the projection are promoted by UNESCO, and they are also widely used by British schools. [3] The U.S. state of Massachusetts and Boston Public Schools began phasing in these maps in March 2017, becoming the first public school district and state in the United States to adopt Gall–Peters maps as their standard. [4] x = R π λ cos ⁡ 45 ∘ 180 ∘ = R π λ 180 ∘ 2 y = R sin ⁡ φ cos ⁡ 45 ∘ = R 2 sin ⁡ φ {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}x&={\frac {R\pi \lambda \cos 45

public Wi-Fi - this extends to the majority of our public spaces including the Reading Rooms, as well as our study desks and galleries at St Pancras (you won't require a login) All of our upcoming public events and our St Pancras building tours are going ahead. Read our latest blog post about planned events for more information. You can also still join BIPC events and webinars and access one-to-one support. See what's available at the British Library in St Pancras or online and in person via BIPCs in libraries across London. The Gall–Peters projection is a rectangular, equal-area map projection. Like all equal-area projections, it distorts most shapes. It is a cylindrical equal-area projection with latitudes 45° north and south as the regions on the map that have no distortion. The Peters World Map is an Equal Area cylindrical projection with standard parallels at 45 degrees thus resulting in a distortion of shape which is stretched about the equator and squashed towards the poles, but having the great advantage that all countries are correct in size in relation to each other. Widely used in educational and business circles as an icon of the modern concept of world equality. THE HISTORY