It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world ... map is so proportionally accurate that you can fold it up into a three-dimensional globe.

“Wild World” is a hand-drawn map of our planet that both inspires and celebrates wonder. Mr. Thomas, an exuberant New Zealander living in Melbourne, Australia, initially anticipated spending ...

The Americas and Africa are tilted inward and pushed to the upper corners of the map, while Australia sits ... subdivisions of his globe to achieve true representations of the continents and ensure ...

For decades, geography teachers have relied on a more than 400-year-old map that grossly distorts the size of the world’s landmasses ... at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter ...

But globes are bulky and cumbersome, so we still squeeze our 3-D orb onto 2-D maps. And thanks to a clever architect in Tokyo, we have a map that could change the world — or at least how we ...

Learning how to create a 3D globe with the world map in Illustrator is quite easy to do and remember. This project can also be the start of another project on how to make this 3D globe revolve.

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 ...