Equal Earth projection
Proyección Equal Earth
- Date
- 2018 · confidence high
- Place
- Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- Credited to
- Bojan Šavrič, Bernhard Jenny and Tom Patterson
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What it is
Jenny, Šavrič and Patterson designed an equal-area pseudocylindrical projection that preserves the relative size of continents, with a more natural visual look than other equal-area projections like Gall-Peters, intended to replace Mercator in general-purpose maps.
What it led to
- Growing adoption in media and education instead of Mercator
- UN recommendation (2026) to replace Mercator
- Renewed debate on cartographic representation of the world
Built on
- Gall–Peters projection