Le Paper Globe: a do-it-yourself terrestrial globe

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Very nice! I'll have to try this out when I get home.

very cool ! what are some of your ideas on customization?

your ancestry/family tree overlayed?

travel logs?

historic airline route maps?

Early explorer journeys?

WW2 troop/invasions?

starmaps?

great activity to do with the kids!

Oh, beautiful!

Can it be done with hexagons and pentagons like a soccer ball? It may get more rounded, but probably harder to assemble.

It works rather well with triangles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map

Of course.

For dramatic effect, consider a pop up shape such as http://numberloving.com/tag/dodecahedron/ (easy to make) or http://www.mathmos.net/misc/popup-icosahedron.html (tricky to make it pop up reliably)

I keep hoping someone will use Jason Davies' D3 map stuff to project a globe on a polyhedron and then split it over multiple pages so you can make larger globes, and add tabs for gluing. See http://www.jasondavies.com/maps/airocean/