This does have its drawbacks, as the Earth is round, but pages are flat, so what we see on a map is slightly distorted.Globes and maps are how we’ve seen the world for hundreds of years.

We Google Earth (it's a verb now ... personal collection of hundreds of ball-shaped maps of the world dating back to the 1900s. In this ode to globes, he features globes made of wood, cast ...

This does have its drawbacks, as the Earth is round, but pages are flat, so what we see on a map is slightly distorted.Globes and maps are how we’ve seen the world for hundreds of years.