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Our earth is round. Globes which depict our world are round. Maps are flat. How can you ever accurately represent something which is round on a rectangle piece of paper? The answer is you just can’t. This gets us to our next question are our maps inaccurate? The answer is yes they are. All flat maps of our world are […]
Read moreThe purpose of Wikipedia’s and Mapsofworld’s existence is same – they both wish to be and are a reference source. The similarity ends here. Wikipedia is a reference resource for anything and everything under the sun and Mapsofworld is a reference resource for largely maps and to a certain extent, geography, education and travel. The differences begin here, while Wikipedia […]
Read moreStories may make websites. However, it takes real stories to make real websites. We always wanted Mapsofworld.com to be a real website, not just a job work of armchair journalists. Mapsofworld has hundreds of photographs, which have been specially commissioned. It also has hundreds of photographs taken by our team members while they were away on their private trips to […]
Read moreThe United States is a nation of immigrants and their food is anything but homogeneous on the whole. This particular aspect needed to be brought out and we didn’t want to be encyclopedic at all. We wanted to be yummy – as yummy as the American food to begin with. We wanted maps, we wanted text but we didn’t want […]
Read moreA few years back, we started working on a project titled “Tongues of the World,” this project was envisaged to cover languages spoken in different parts of the world and how they are contracting or spreading world over. There are many languages which are dying and there are a few which are reaching out to more and more people. There […]
Read moreWe have all been reading about the Pyramids and Mapsofworld has been covering them since it got going with its travel section in 2005. The Pyramids are Pyramids, and that’s a big deal! However, so much has been written about them, now what could be different? Yes, that question got us going. We wanted our take on Pyramids to be […]
Read moreInformation is a tricky business to be in. At times, you need to do so much data crunching that sardines start feeling that their can is a Pacific Ocean, really – no kidding! Our requisition to the content team was to provide us with just one page of information on the US, which when read and absorbed, would make the […]
Read moreCan one project comprise tiny 100 projects and function with utmost precision and detail? Yes, Team Mapsofworld can do it, has done it. We began a project called FryDay Poll. Yes, FryDay, and not Friday. FryDay Poll was based on a concept that every Friday, Team Mapsofworld.com would churn out a new dish, in terms of a new topic, hitherto […]
Read moreWhen you are looking at seeding content for a new module or a section, the biggest challenge that greets you is – Will it work? Now, it is fairly easy to cheat yourself and, say yes, to all ideas that come and you get passionate about. However, making it happen, again and again, is a very different ball game altogether. […]
Read moreWe always hear that our world is getting smaller and lines are blurring between languages, culture and boundaries. One of the surreal things enabling this is food. Food is doing its bit in making this world smaller and more joyous. Food is a big time joy-giver and it gives joy to both its maker and consumer. Food brings smiles across […]
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