Learning how to create a 3D globe with the world map in Illustrator will help with that. This 3D globe with the world may be a stand-alone project or it can be a part of a larger project.

Feast Your Eyes on "Equal Earth," the New and More Accurate World Map. ... The big problem with mapmaking is that while maps are flat, the Earth is a globe. ... has the same size and outline as ...

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.