How do I turn my large scale world map into something 3d?

[DreamingNomad]

I have created a large scaled map of a world but to help my fully understand the distance between places, along with understanding if the climates are right in certain areas...

How can I turn my 2d map into something 3d and possible onto a sphere?

[johnvanvliet]

is it on paper ot on the computer ?

what mapping projection is it ?

to map to a sphere it needs to be in simple cylindrical or a mapped "Cube map"

[Azélor]

You probably meant small scale map of the world. A large scale map would be a city map or floorplans.

[johnvanvliet]

also what do you mean by 3d
a real globe or in the computer
like these renderings i did in Blender and Celestia


or this Kuper Belt Object / Trans Neptunium Object ( KBO / TNO )


or this earthlike

[Runninghead]

OP might also mean isometric, faux (games) isometric or just relief, etc


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[johnvanvliet]

for an isometric view you need to have a height map that can be converted into a mesh or used as a displacement map
like this


a height map imported into blender