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 ...

We can’t bring [our globes] out for readers to look at because they are so fragile, so they are the hidden world maps and hidden star charts of the collection.” Imaging specialists at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @akjohnson1922.

"The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World" (Riverhead ... After all, the lessons most of us encountered in school included a map of the world divided by lines into countries.

Here’s a walkthrough of the history of the Babson World Globe. In 1947, the college’s founder Roger Babson came up with the idea to build the globe as a part of the Map and Globe Museum to ...