Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

A collaboration of three cartographers has developed a new representation of the world map ... of the elliptical arcs of the globe, making the new map visually appealing. The height-to-width ...

Learning how to create a 3D globe with the world map in Illustrator ... at the bottom left of the Map art window. The map image will scale and fit the Map art representation of the sphere.

When the Boston Public School District recently decided to change what type of map it used, that move inspired a group of scientists to develop a brand new type of world map. They claim it is the ...

On a typical world map, Canada is a vast nation. Home to six time zones, its endless plains spread from ocean to ocean, dominating great swathes of the northern half of the globe. But, in reality ...

Languages: English, Spanish Think about a map of the world. The image you're picturing will most likely resemble the Mercator projection—a 2D representation of the globe created in the 1500s ...

Maps are flat representations of our spherical planet. I cut open a plastic globe to understand just what it takes to turn a sphere into something flat: My struggle to make a flat map out of the ...

Google Maps rolled out ... across -- the world. Click on the new Globe Mode, zoom out, and the Earth will morph into a globe, which, by the way, is the actual shape of our planet.