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> Darius Bartlett and Michael J. Horner would be surprised to know
> that we have in our collection a GLOBE of Berlin. Its description
> is:
>
> Berlin / cartography: Karl-F. Harig. -- [Copenhagen] :
> Scan-Globe, cop. 1993. -- 1 globe : in color ; diameter ca. 15
> cm.
 
.... well, yes, I am surprised! But also my curiosity has been raised. Maybe
I am missing something obvious, but what would a globe of Berlin look like?
and how is it made? I know that a map projection is a device for rendering a
more-or-less round body (the world) on to a plane surface. So is a "globe of
Berlin" constructed by "retro-projecting" from the plane onto a spherical
object?
 
By the way, I have also remembered another query that I fielded many years
ago in my map librarianship days.... from someone wanting to know why the
British Ordnance Survey didn't mark Ley Lines on their maps, since "they are
the most fundamental geographical feature of this country (i.e. Britain)"
(as far as I can work out, Ley Lines are mythical lines of "mystical energy"
that are supposed to connect Stonehenge and other ancient monuments into
some sort of web of cosmic energy or something).
 
Darius Bartlett