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 ...

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 ...

Their invention could easily fit in the pocket of a wayfaring pirate or explorer, and the researchers hope it will become the accepted world map. “Our map is actually more like the globe than ...

Image credit: Washington Map Society The first known globe to include the New World was recently found at a London map ... via Da Vinci's unique method for transferring a 2-dimensional drawing to a ...