Maps seemed to be everywhere in 2013, a trend I like to think we encouraged along with August's 40 maps that explain the world.Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world ...

KS3; Atlas skills UK, Europe and world maps. Geographers use tools such as longitude, latitude and Mercator projections to create two-dimensional atlases of our three-dimensional planet.

The result is that Europe (although also Africa) is in the centre of the conventional world map – a rather colonial perspective. Pacific-centred map. DEMIS Mapserver/Wikimedia ...