THIS revolutionary world map may look unfamiliar – but it has been hailed the most accurate 2D depiction of our globe ever made. The clever ‘origami’-style technique solves a cent… ...

US schools to get new world map after 500 years of 'colonial' distortion. ... The simplest way to explain how a Mercator map is created is to imagine a glass globe with a light inside.

The New World on the ostrich egg globe, which bears three names: Washington Map Society. Aug. 23, 2013, 12:13 PM EDT. By Megan Gannon.