This map brings your visual focus onto the oceans instead of the land and feels quite different from the Africa-centered Peters Map. This map will challenge students to think about the world, and USA-centrism, in a whole new way, providing an entree into many topics of discussion. This Pacific-centered version is color-coded as a physical relief map showing mountain ranges, different types of terrain, etc. It uses a proprietary technique of Oxford Cartographers known as 3-D hill-shading. Important features of the Peters Map: The Peters Map is an equal area map; the map shows all areas - whether countries, continents or oceans - according to their actual size. Accurate comparisons become possible; on the Peters Map all North-South lines run vertical on this map. Thus, geographic points can be seen in their precise directional relationship.

Pacific-centered Peters Equal Area Map - laminated

Oxford Cartographers

Arno Peters

ODTmaps

ODT collaborated with the Amherst College museum staff to develop a custom-designed world map for "A Global View," a new installation of cultural artifacts organized as a part of the Mead's whole-museum reinstallation project. After reviewing numerous options, museum curators selected "The World Turned Upside Down," a map which places the southern hemisphere at the top and shows the relative size of continents. The map is a Hobo-Dyer Equal Area Projection, South-Up, and was commissioned and published by ODT and designed and Oxford Cartographers (UK). "This handsome and informative map challenges visitors' preconceptions about something as seemingly straightforward as the geography of the world," said Elizabeth Barker, the Mead Museum's director and chief curator. "In that way, it furthers the Mead's educational mission." Now available from AMAZON in paper folded format. Other specialty paper available from your local frame shop at 24x36. NOTE: Way cheaper to go to https://www.amazon.com/dp/1931057311 and order the laminated version of this exact same map.

HOBO DYER EQUAL AREA MAP

Oxford Cartographers' Mick Dyer

ODTmaps.com Bob Abramms

ODTmaps.com Howard Bronstein

ODTmaps.com Mona Naimark

Peters Mid-size Wall Map 24x36 - just the map 2015 edition (paper folded format).......One of the most controversial images of the world, the Peters Map was first introduced by Dr. Arno Peters in 1974, and generated a firestorm of debate. Peters was one of the first to assert that maps are unavoidably political. His map claimed to show "Fairness to All Peoples" providing an area accurate portrayal of the world. Today, this equal area map continues to have passionate fans as well as staunch critics. Important Features of the Peters Map: * The Peters Map is an equal area map. * This new map shows all areas - whether countries, continents or oceans - according to their actual size. Accurate comparisons become possible. * All North-South lines run vertical on this map. Thus, geographic points can be seen in their precise directional relationship. * All East-West Lines run parallel. * New map explanation and bottom comparison panels, including four other equal area maps. For more details on the Peters Map visit ODTmaps' link, What's Behind the Maps. **** THis map is also available at the same size with side and bottom explanatory panels. It also comes in an 11x17 desktop size (laminated) and in a very large 39x50" wall map (both laminated and paper/folded formats)

Peters Mid-size Wall Map 24x36 - just the map

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Peters Mid-size Wall Map 24x36 - with Explanatory PANELS (another version also available without panels - and a larger map on the same 2'x3' sheet)....One of the most controversial images of the world, the Peters Map was first introduced by Dr. Arno Peters in 1974, and generated a firestorm of debate. Peters was one of the first to assert that maps are unavoidably political. His map claimed to show "Fairness to All Peoples" providing an area accurate portrayal of the world. Today, this equal area map continues to have passionate fans as well as staunch critics.....Important Features of the Peters Map: * The Peters Map is an equal area map. * This new map shows all areas - whether countries, continents or oceans - according to their actual size. Accurate comparisons become possible. * All North-South lines run vertical on this map. Thus, geographic points can be seen in their precise directional relationship. * All East-West Lines run parallel. * New map explanation and bottom comparison panels, including four other equal area maps. For more details on the Peters Map visit ODTmaps link, "What's Behind the Maps"

Peters Equal Area World Map 24"x 36" paper folded map with bottom comparison panels (2015) by Arno Peters; includes sidebar explanation panel by ODTmaps and Oxford Cartographers

A picture is worth a million words! The original graphic has been translated from French to English by ODTmaps' authors Ward Kaiser & Denis Wood, and modified to most effectively display the temperature data. The map is reproduced from page 74 of Seeing Through Maps ( see that title on AMAZON at amazon.com/Seeing-Through-Maps-Many-World/dp/1931057206. Edward Tufte says, this is...'probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn, this map by Charles Joseph Minard portrays the losses suffered by Napoleon's army in the Russian campaign of 1812. Beginning at the Polish-Russian border, the thick band shows the size of the army at each position. The path of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in the bitterly cold winter is depicted by the dark lower band, which is tied to temperature and time scales.' From The Economist: Minard's chart shows six types of information: geography, time, temperature, the course and direction of the army's movement, and the number of troops remaining. The widths of the gold (outward) and black (returning) paths represent the size of the force, one millimetre to 10,000 men. Geographical features and major battles are marked and named, and plummeting temperatures on the return journey are shown along the bottom. The chart tells the dreadful story with painful clarity: in 1812, the Grand Army set out from Poland with a force of 422,000; only 100,000 reached Moscow; and only 10,000 returned. The detail and understatement with which such horrifying loss is represented combine to bring a lump to the throat. As men tried, and mostly failed, to cross the Bérézina river under heavy attack, the width of the black line halves: another 20,000 or so gone. The French now use the expression C'est la Bérézina to describe a total disaster. In 1871, the year after Minard died, his obituarist cited particularly his graphical innovations: For the dry and complicated columns of statistical data, of which the analysis and the discussion always require a great sustained mental effort, he had substituted images mathematically proportioned, that the first glance takes in and knows without fatigue, and which manifest immediately the natural consequences or the comparisons unforeseen. The chart shown here is singled out for special mention: it inspires bitter reflections on the cost to humanity of the madnesses of conquerors and the merciless thirst of military glory .

Minard Map of Napoleons March on Moscow - Handouts 6x9. 25-pack

Charles Joseph Minard

Translated by ODTmaps.com