Maps

     Today in human geo we looked at three different maps.  One was of the United States, and the other two were of the entire world.  There was one major difference between these two maps though one of these maps was called Mercator map and the other was a peter's projection map.  the first of these two maps were invented in the 15th century and was very good for sailing and other types of navigation.  the new peter's projection map is more accurate when it comes to the size of places.  in the Mercator map places such as the united states were made far larger than they actually are and third world countries were mad far smaller.  In this new map, things are much more proportionate.  such as Africa and Greenland.  they do this by bending the distance between the longitude and latitude lines to simulate the curvature of the earth better.  Another point that was made about maps was why does north have to be up all of the time and that it is very easily possible to make south the top of the map and that there are problems with this idea.