Folding Paper Globes | Hacker News

A Hacker News post says digital map apps have come a long way for navigation and visualization, but still do not make it easy to view clean political maps with borders only.

Google Maps and Apple Maps now offer roads, satellite imagery, photogrammetry, and some terrain detail, yet stripping away roads and labels remains difficult.

The missing feature is a border-focused view that was common in paper atlases and road atlases.

The post highlights a product gap: modern maps are data-rich, but still lack a simple political map mode.