Peter's Map Is The Best Sis

Today we learned a little bit more about maps and how they are made. We also learned about how all maps have something wrong with them because it is impossible to make something that is round, the Earth, into something that is flat, a map, perfectly. The four types of distortion are shape of an area, distance between two points, relative size, and direction. On the mercator map, which is the one we have been using our entire life, the size of most of the continents and countries are not the correct size. However, the Peter's map is way more accurate with size and distance and should be the maps that we use for education. Also, I think mercator maps are made with a bias from the cartographer. In their maps, they tend to make the countries that they think are the most important bigger and at the top of the map. Which is inaccurate and makes us believe things are bigger than they are. For example, today I saw how big Africa really is and it was huge. It also makes us believe that the world is scientifically made with North America on top and Australia on the bottom, which is not the way it has to be. You could flip the map around and it would still be correct.