{"id":1791478,"date":"2021-07-26T19:56:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T23:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1791478"},"modified":"2021-07-26T19:56:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T23:56:18","slug":"esris-new-giant-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/07\/esris-new-giant-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"Esri&#8217;s New Giant Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Earthball installation\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WhhlpgqJIcg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen you are a global Geographic Information Technology company with a globe in your logo, you don\u2019t shy away from the opportunity to have a great big glorious 8.5-foot diameter illuminated rotating globe in your new office building. But what sort of globe cartography do you design? How should this gigantic model of our lovely home planet appear?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/mapping\/its-a-giant-globe\/\">John Nelson and Sean Breyer explain<\/a> the design and construction process behind Esri\u2019s new globe\u2014a custom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthball.com\">Earthball<\/a> manufactured by Orbis World Globes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen you are a global Geographic Information Technology company with a globe in your logo, you don\u2019t shy away from the opportunity to have a great big glorious 8.5-foot diameter illuminated rotating globe in your&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/07\/esris-new-giant-globe\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,121],"tags":[372,244,26],"class_list":["post-1791478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-cartography","category-industry","tag-big-maps","tag-esri","tag-globes","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1809187,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/09\/from-analemma-to-zodiac-bellerbys-glossary-of-globe-terminology\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791478,"position":0},"title":"From Analemma to Zodiac: Bellerby\u2019s Glossary of Globe Terminology","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 September 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Globemaker Bellerby & Co. has posted a glossary of globe terminology that covers more general geographical terms and concepts (equator, hemisphere) as well as things that are mainly found on globes, covering the various mount types, to common features like time dials and analemmas, to calottes (which are the little\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cartography&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cartography","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/cartography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3603,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/12\/miscellaneous-globes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791478,"position":1},"title":"Miscellaneous Globes","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"12 December 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Random and miscellaneous globe items: James Wilson was America's first globe maker; his Bradford, Vermont-based globe factory opened in 1813. Geolounge points to the above illustration of Wilson, undated but from the early 20th century,\u00a0by Roy Frederic Heinrich. The Norman B. 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Peter Bellerby started the company six years ago\u2014he wanted to make a globe for his father for his birthday, but got a bit carried away. Very much a luxury product: the least expensive item I could find in their catalogue was \u00a3999,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Industry&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Industry","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/industry\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5580,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2013\/05\/a-renaissance-globemakers-tool\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791478,"position":3},"title":"A Renaissance Globemaker&#8217;s Toolbox","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"29 May 2013","format":"link","excerpt":"Briefly noted: A Renaissance Globemaker's Toolbox: Johannes Sch\u00f6ner and the Revolution of Modern Science, John Hessler's biography of German priest, astronomer and mathematician Johannes Sch\u00f6ner (1477-1547), an early globemaker who, among other things, created the first printed celestial globe gores as well as globe gores for Martin Waldseem\u00fcller's world maps.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":323,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/01\/dubrovnik-symposium\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791478,"position":4},"title":"Dubrovnik Symposium","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 January 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The 6th International\u00a0Symposium on the History of Cartography will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia in October 2016.\u00a0\"The joint organizers invite contributions (papers and posters) on the dissemination of cartographic knowledge and the effectiveness thereof in\u00a0diverse cartographic cultures and their related user groups\u00a0around the globe. 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Mark Wallinger\u2019s World Turned Upside Down, a 13-foot globe on the LSE campus with the South Pole on top, generated controversy (and vandalism) after its unveiling in 2019 for how it handled contested borders: it shows Lhasa as a capital, Taiwan as a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/upside-down-globe.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/upside-down-globe.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/upside-down-globe.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/upside-down-globe.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/upside-down-globe.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/upside-down-globe.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1791480,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791478\/revisions\/1791480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}