As Google Earth turns twenty years old, Google is introducing a pair of new features and looking back at history.

For the service's 20th anniversary, Google was inspired by a social media trend from last year in which people shared ...

Take a tour inside a factory where Earth globes are produced in bulk. This video offers a look at how detailed maps are transformed into beautiful globes, showcasing the entire process from ...

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

Here are a few of the different ways cartographers have tried to depict the Earth. This map bowed ... more subdivisions of his globe to achieve true representations of the continents and ensure the ...

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.

In the age of Google Earth, watches that triangulate and cars with built-in GPS, there's something about a globe — a spherical representation of the world in ... of their map image,” says ...

In the age of Google Earth, watches that triangulate and cars with built-in GPS, there’s something about a globe — a spherical representation of the world in ... of their map image,” says ...

Map of India, Pakistan and Nepal are shown on a globe at a studio in London, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. Globes in the age of Google Earth capture the imagination and serve as snapshots of how the ...