Mercator Positives: Negatives: It is easy to enlarge the maps (Google Maps) It is easy to read and understand Precise towards the equator Good to use for navigation purposes Negatives: Very distorted. For example: Greenland looks to be as large as Africa, when in reality Africa is about 13 times larger. Poles aren’t precise

How? Example of it’s use: Google Maps It is difficult to make something round into something flat…note the distortions Example of it’s use: Google Maps

Peters Positive: Negatives: The continents are more precise (to scale) A lot of distortion north and south of the equator, and east and west at the poles Ex:Africa looks to be 2 times longer than it does wide. In reality, it is about the same.

Mollweide Positives: Negatives: -Good for making smaller maps (less distortion) Negatives: -forms and angles aren’t precise

Robinson Positive: Negatives: Nice to look at (very clear and looks precise) Very little distortion Negatives: -Severe distortion at the poles

Robinson cont… All the parallels are straight lines Prime Meridian is a Straight line All others are curved which makes it nice to look at and seems precise.

Interesting Fact Mercator and Peters used mathematical equations to make their maps, Robinson simply just made maps that were easy and nice to look at….

Van Der Grinten Positive: Negatives: Good representation of the size of continents Negatives: Hard to use (Zoom?) Hard to use for navigation (distance?)