On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 08:05:13PM -0500, Caleuche wrote:
> if you can post a picture showing where the hex boarders should be,
> when related to a globe, that'd be very helpful.

A quick web search brings up

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldberg_polyhedron

which shows the mapping.

> There are several approaches to it but I lose something out of each
> one, either the edges of the hexes cannot remain north-south aligned

That's right, the vertical edges on the flat map are not everywhere
north-south aligned on the sphere.  Also, 12 of the "hexes" are
actually pentagons.

- Tim