GIS Education Weekly: Mercator Out and Gall-Peters In for Boston Students

Articles and Resources of Interest

Chicago Educational Attainment
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Map: Educational Attainment in America Map - by Kyle Walker, TCU Center for Urban Studies. Check out Chicago! via @pennstateGIS

ArcGIS Blog: How to Make Smart Color Choices in Your Maps - Lisa Berry (Esri) tackles color. There's also a swell story map.

The Boston Globe: Is North America really bigger than Africa? This map sets things straight -Six hundred social studies classrooms throughout the Boston Public School system are swapping out Mercator projection maps for Gall-Peters projection maps. Gall-Peters are the ones that "more accurately depict the dimensions of continents and countries," per the article. Do you think it will have an impact? Via John from the Ross Road running crew