Unlike the standard map of the world, designed in the 1500s, this new map doesn't distort Greenland to make it look the same size as Africa.

A Belgian map collector has discovered what he claims is the oldest globe depicting the New World—but some are skeptical.

An Austrian collector has found what may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs.

Google Maps satellite images cover 98 percent of the world's population It has photographed 10 million miles of Street View imagery.