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The shape of the Earth is represented as a sphere. It is also modeled more accurately as an oblate spheroid or an ellipsoid. A globe is a scaled down model of the Earth. Although they can represent size, shape, distance and directions of the Earth features with reasonable accuracy, globes are not practical or suitable for many applications. They are hard to transport and store; for example you can not stuff a globe in your backpack while hiking or store it in your cars glove compartment. Globes are not suitable for use at large scales, such as finding directions in a city or following a hiking route,
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where a more detailed image is essential. They are expensive to produce, especially in varying sizes (scales). On a curved surface, measuring terrain properties is difficult, and it is not possible to see large portions of the Earth at once.
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