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 ...

Controlled by a keyboard or tablet computer, a digital globe can toggle between familiar, static images, like the world’s political boundaries, topography or vegetation. It can animate complex ...

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 ...

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.

This article was originally published on Nov. 3, 2016. Our maps have been lying to us for centuries. The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a ...

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”.

"Every world map is distorted in some respect," Matthew ... "Do you want the regions to be shaped as they are on a globe, or sized as they are on a globe? For most purposes, the latter is much ...