Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't ...

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.

The revolutionary map may look unfamiliar but it solves a centuries-old problem THIS revolutionary world map may look ... that involves dividing the globe into 96 triangular "tiles".

For now, the aim is to create a 3D globe with a world map on it. Any successful project has a lot of preparation going into it. You can’t get everything right but when there is a lot of ...

compiled for the first time into an interactive time-lapse experience. We believe this is the most comprehensive picture of our changing planet ever made available to the public." The map data ...

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 ...

Walk into any school classroom and you will likely see a flat, rectangular map of the world sprawled across the ... regions to be shaped as they are on a globe, or sized as they are on a globe?

Maps are all imperfect because they portray the globe in just two dimensions ... When you consider square mileage though, a whole new world appears. Inspired by this map of Africa's true size ...

The first known world map was inscribed ... point of orientation.) Maps became political tools as the Spanish and Portuguese empires divvied up the globe into separate halves “in one of the ...

Maps are all imperfect because they portray the globe in just two dimensions ... When you consider square mileage though, a whole new world appears. Inspired by this map of Africa's true size ...