My favourite map of the world is ... a globe.
My family was not wealthy, but when I was a child we had, not just a world atlas with its flat maps, but a world globe made of cardboard (from Reader’s Digest, I think). So I did not grow up confused about the size of Greenland versus Africa.
So, let there be more cheap, cardboard world globes. And online, let there be more animated and interactive images of the world as it actually is: spherical. I’m as fascinated as anyone by the merits of different map projections, but most people are not 15th century navigators having to choose a projection for their flat paper charts.
