The most common world map used today ... AuthaGraph The key to creating the new map was dividing the globe into 96 equal regions and then transferring the dimensions from a sphere to a tetrahedron ...

SEE ALSO: In a world of Google maps, bespoke handcrafted globes are making an unexpected return AuthaGraph corrects these common misconceptions (like the size of Africa) by converting the ...

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 ...

The world maps that have hung on school walls in Boston ... Akilah Johnson can be reached at akilah.johnson@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @akjohnson1922.

Creating a map of the world presents a fundamental problem ... Office of Opportunity and Achievement Gaps, told The Boston Globe the move was part of an attempt to “decolonise the curriculum”.

How do you represent the world globe on a flat surface? Can it be done without distorting the sizes of countries and continents and the distances between places? What would it take to make an accurate ...

In 1998 the Globe of Peace was surpassed as the world’s largest rotating globe by Eartha, which is also considered the largest three-dimensional Earth-scale replica in existence. Eartha on Google Maps ...

The globe, about the size of a grapefruit ... Hessler described two types of people in the rare-book and map world: those who get overly excited at any new finding and those who are more skeptical.