World map drawing

Create your own custom historical map • Make a map of the World, Europe or the United States in various chronologies • Color code countries or states on the map • Add a legend and download as an image file • Use the map in your project or share it with your friends • Free and easy to use • For modern maps, please visit • Choose from one of the many maps showing the state of World, Europe, or the United States in various years, including: • World maps for 1815, 1880, 1914, 1938 • World map for the duration of the Cold War and beyond (1946-2016) • European World War I and II maps • US historical map, featuring the territorial evolution of the United States from 1790 to today • Download your map as a high-quality image, and use it for free. Created maps are licensed under a

Author • Donald Houston Head of Geography, University of Portsmouth Disclosure statement Donald Houston does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Partners The Conversation UK receives funding from these organisations View the full list Peters projection. This is what happens with the more commonly used Why does this problem occur? Simply put, the world is round and a map is flat. Imagine drawing a world map on an orange, peeling the skin to leave a single piece and then flattening it. It would, of course, rip. But imagine you could stretch it. As you did so, the map drawn on its surface would distort. South-up Peters projection. Daniel R. Strebe, North is up, right? Only by convention. There’s no scientific reason why north is any more up than south. Equally, we could do east-up, west-up or any other compass bearing. Purposefully reversing the typical way world maps are drawn has a similar political effect to using the Peters projection, putting more developing countries in the generally poorer southern hemisphere at the top of the map and so giving them greater significance. 1927 recreation of the Tabula Rogeriana. Pacific-centred Another convention of world maps is that they are centred on the prime meridian, or zero degrees longitude (east-west). But this is scientifically arbitrary, deriving from the loc...

• Choose from one of the many maps of regions and countries, including: • World maps • Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia, Oceania • US states and counties • Subdivision maps (counties, provinces, etc.) • Single country maps (the UK, Italy, France, Germany, Spain and 20+ more) • Fantasy maps • Get your message across with a professional-looking map. • Download your map as a high-quality image, and use it for free. Created maps are licensed under a Colors • Use the color scheme you want for your map. • Suitable colors for statistical and choropleth maps. • Colorblind-friendly palettes. • Use patterns (dots, stripes, lines, etc.) for countries/states that belong in two groups. • Change background color, borders, legend font, legend color and give your map your own styling.

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