Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.
Mapping larger regions, where the curvature cannot be ignored, requires projections to map from the curved surface of the Earth to the plane. The impossibility of flattening the sphere to the plane without distortion means that the map cannot have a constant scale.
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
Topographic maps are graphic representations of natural and man-made features of parts of the Earth ’s surface plotted to scale. They show the shape of land and record elevations above sea level, lakes, streams and other hydrographic features, and roads and other works of man.