Editing Gall–Peters projection (section)

== Adoption ==
Maps based on the projection are promoted by [[UNESCO]], and they are also widely used by British schools.<ref>Higgins, Hannah B. ''The Grid Book''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2009. {{ISBN|9780262512404}}  p.94. "Embroiled in controversy from the start, the map is nonetheless widely used in the British school system and is promoted by the United Nations Educational and Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO) because of its ability to communicate visually the actual relative sizes of the various regions of the planet."</ref> The U.S. state of [[Massachusetts]] and [[Boston Public Schools]] began phasing in these maps in March 2017, becoming the first public school district and state in the [[United States]] to adopt Gall–Peters maps as their standard. Until its dissolution in 2020, [[Amherst, Massachusetts|Amherst]]-based ODT Maps Inc. was the exclusive North American publisher of Peters and [[Hobo–Dyer projection]] maps.<ref name="guardian-19mar2017">{{cite news|author1=Joanna Walters|title=Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/mar/19/boston-public-schools-world-map-mercator-peters-projection|access-date=March 19, 2017|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=March 19, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=ODT’s proportionate world maps find a fan in ‘Don the donor’|first=Sophia|last=Gardner|work=[[Daily Hampshire Gazette]]|location=Northampton, Massachusetts|date=August 2, 2021|url=https://www.gazettenet.com/ODTMaps-hg-073121-41713808|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803033521/https://www.gazettenet.com/ODTMaps-hg-073121-41713808|archivedate=August 3, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=About Us|publisher=ODT Maps|location=Amherst, Massachusetts|date=2021|url=https://manywaystoseetheworld.org/pages/about-us|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222040848/https://manywaystoseetheworld.org/pages/about-us|archivedate=February 22, 2021}}</ref> On April 16, 2024, [[Nebraska]] Governor [[Jim Pillen]] signed a law that requires public schools to display maps based on the Gall–Peters projection, a similar [[cylindrical equal-area projection]], or the [[AuthaGraph projection]] beginning in the 2024–2025 school year.<ref>{{cite news|title=More than 100 bills sent to Nebraska Gov. Pillen for approval in legislative voting spree|first=Zach|last=Wendling|work=[[Nebraska Examiner]]|publisher=States Newsroom|date=April 11, 2024|url=https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/04/11/more-than-100-bills-sent-to-nebraska-gov-pillen-for-approval-in-legislative-voting-spree/}}</ref><ref>{{cite act|type=Legislative Bill|index=1329|legislature=Nebraska Legislature|article-type=Section|article=90|date=2024|pages=102–103|url=https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/Final/LB1329.pdf#page=102}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=LB1329|work=Nebraska Legislature|publisher=Nebraska Legislature|location=Lincoln, Nebraska|date=April 18, 2024|accessdate=May 15, 2024|url=https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/view_bill.php?DocumentID=55393}}</ref>