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Why some people still opt for globes in an era of digital mapping

Why some people still opt for globes in an era of digital mapping

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Monday, April 8, 2024 5:07 PM GMT

In the age of modern technology, we no longer need physical globes to learn about the Earth or its many nations. But there is still a market for ornate, handcrafted globes.

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 miniature — that somehow endures.

London globemaker Peter Bellerby thinks the human yearning to "find our place in the cosmos" has helped globes survive their original purpose — navigation — and the internet. He says it's part of the reason he went into debt making a globe for his father's 80th birthday in 2008. The experience helped inspire his company, and 16 years later is keeping his team of about two dozen artists, cartographers and woodworkers employed.

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