Turn Satellite Imagery into a Paper Globe You Fold Yourself
Folding Globes lets you create custom paper globes from satellite imagery or map styles like Blue Marble, Earth at Night, or vintage terrain. Choose from 10 geometric shapes—icosahedron, cube, tetrahedron—and personalize with pins, country highlights, and QR codes. Print on A4 or A3, cut, and fold. Each globe is built from openly licensed data, and a single globe costs $6.95 for a print-ready PDF.
Print it. Cut it. Fold the world with your own two hands — with your places pinned on it.
- Max-q
Icosahedron is the classic? I have never ever seen an icosahedron globe in my life, neither real or digital. What in the world happened in the brain or artificial neural network when that title was picked for an icosahedron “globe”?
- hahahaa
6.95 or point my LLM at the site and copy the simple idea.
- ShinyLeftPad
> No pins yet — your globe works fine without them, but a “you are here” makes it a gift.
(in exasperation) How does that make it a gift?