Learning how to create a 3D globe with the world map in Illustrator will help with that. This 3D globe with the world may be a stand-alone project or it can be a part of a larger project.

Walk into any school classroom and you will likely see a flat, rectangular map of the world sprawled across the wall. Generations of children have grown up learning that this projection is what ...

IT’S been revealed that the world map we’ve used for centuries doesn’t actually accurately illustrate the globe’s countries and continents. When this world map was charted i… ...

All maps of the world attempt to take the shape of a three-dimensional globe and flatten it, but not all attributes are transferable.

Traditional 2-D maps of Earth are highly distorted, but this award-winning design makes a world of difference.

From space, the Earth looks like a ball. Find out how the world is mapped with this year 5/6 BBC Bitesize geography guide.

A global food system sustainability study builds the first map of its kind to score the sustainability of food systems, country-by-country. The study goes beyond usual questions of productivity ...

How do you flatten a sphere? For centuries, mapmakers have agonized over how to accurately display our round planet on anything other than a globe. Now, a fundamental re-imagining of how maps can work ...

Google is finished thinking two-dimensionally with Maps and now shows the Earth as a globe rather than a flat "Mercator" projection as before. You won't notice the change when you first open the ...

No flat map of our round world can be perfect, of course. First you need to peel off Earth’s skin, then pin it down. This mathematical taxidermy introduces distortions.

An Austrian collector has found what may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs.

In his new book, “A History of the World in 12 Maps,” Jerry Brotton looks at twelve examples of mapmaking from the last 2,000 years.The first known world map was inscribed into clay tablets in ...