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What are the difference and similarieties between maps and globes?

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1. Maps of course are flat and globes (of course) are spherical. The reason why there are globes is because of the logic that if you cut up a round ball, you can't place it intact on a flat table. Globes usually represent the entire geographical landscape of the entire planet while maps can anywhere be from short and small to big and long. Maps can contain road and railroad information, even gas, telephone and electric installations.
2. Map is a 2D representation while a globe is a 3D representation of space.
3. You can roll up a map and make it a cylinder, but you can only roll a globe and make it a ball. You can use a map as a table placemat, but you can use a globe as a dining room table centerpiece. The similarities are nice that you can decorate with them together since they are generally designed with the same use of colors, such as the oceans being in blue and the land being in green, with touches of browns, yellows and reds. So, go ahead and decorate with both of them on the same table. I also have put maps on my walls from time to time, but you can't put a light bulb inside a map like you can with a globe, and make a softer lighting fixture with it. Seriously though, on a map you have to either have longditudinal lines broken up with empty spaces in between in order that they remain correct or you have to exxagerate the real sizes of land and sea as you move further from the equator. So, a globe is much more accurate in its modeling of the earth or any sphere, since it is itself a sphere.