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The advantage of the globe is that it promotes visual accuracy. Students need to use a globe frequently if they are to form accurate mental maps. The advantage of the world map is that you can see the entire world at one time. The disadvantage is that world maps distort shape, size, distance, and direction.

A globe is the only accurate way to study the whole earth. It shows the distribution of land and water on the surface of the earth. The correct shape, size, and location of the continents and oceans are shown. Helps to locate sea route, air route, rivers, cities, etc.

• Globes advantages. Mostly accurately represents the shape of the earth,shapes of landmasses and bodies of water, parallels and meridians, directions, distance.
• Globe disadvantages.
• Maps advantages.
• Maps disadvantages.
• Conformal maps.
• Interrupted.
• Equidistant maps.
• Azimuthal maps.

Only a part of the earth can be seen on a globe, at one glance. All details cannot be marked on a globe. A globe is difficult to carry around.

A map is important because it is used to predict and figure out where things are located. Maps can show where streets run in a city. They can show where certain physical features such as mountains and rivers are. They can show what areas of the world make up the territories of the various countries.

Maps present information about the world in a simple, visual way. They teach about the world by showing sizes and shapes of countries, locations of features, and distances between places. Maps can show distributions of things over Earth, such as settlement patterns.

Locations aren’t the only way our mental maps can be wrong; we also have misconceptions about the relative size of things. This may be due in part to the nature of two-dimensional maps. Flattening a three-dimensional globe onto a flat surface isn’t possible without some distortion.

The simple answer to the question was this: It isn’t upside-down at all. In a flip of convention, my giant, framed world map displays the southern hemisphere — Australia included — at the top. It’s a twist, but not strictly speaking a distortion.

The profound arbitrariness of our current cartographic conventions was made evident by McArthur’s Universal Corrective Map of the World, an iconic “upside down” view of the world that recently celebrated its 35th anniversary. Launched by Australian Stuart McArthur on Jan.