Controlled by a keyboard or tablet computer, a digital globe can toggle between familiar, static images, like the world’s political boundaries, topography or vegetation. It can animate complex ...

These different map representations are called projections. Oh hello! I’m just working out where I am by using this world, er…globe to give it its proper name. A globe is a model of planet ...

This article was originally published on Nov. 3, 2016. Our maps have been lying to us for centuries. The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a ...

Maps are flat representations of our spherical ... it’s best to stick with a globe. Understand the world with a daily explainer plus the most compelling stories of the day, compiled by news ...

The trove, in toto, consists of over 635,000 maps, 15,000 atlases and 250 globes, with some extremely old relics on display, ...

Their invention could easily fit in the pocket of a wayfaring pirate or explorer, and the researchers hope it will become the accepted world map. “Our map is actually more like the globe than ...

His algorithms divide the globe’s surface into small polygons that are unfolded into a flat map, just as a cube can be unfolded into six squares. Cartographers have tried this trick before ...

Is the Earth a Globe?” (here). On page 350, he mentions “a new map of the world as it is” and says, “it contains all the continents and principal islands and rivers of the world ...