The Globe Drawings are inspired by Ismail’s travels to cities across the world, having experienced ... the drawings relied heavily upon images from Google Maps, and Ismail’s personal library ...

It’s been two and a half years since artist and cartographer Anton Thomas started hand-drawing a 3-foot-wide world ... across the globe: Thomas has drawn 1,095 animals on the map so far, and ...

not to mention the difficulty of projecting a spherical globe onto a plane surface. Now compound these challenges by asking 30 people to sketch a map of the world from memory. What would you get?

This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps ... 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 ...