Is there a 3D globe available for Maple?  Specifically, a globe depicting the Earth's continents and oceans, that can be grabbed and rotated with the mouse like any other 3D Maple plot?

This behavior seems rather odd.  Is it documented anywhere?

I expected that final result to be [3,4].  Why is it [a,b]?

I know that I can do eval(convert(v, list)) to get the numerical value, but why is the eval necessary?

I am stumped with this trivial puzzle.  Let
z := arctan(x/sqrt(a^2-x^2));
                    
How do we simplify z to.

I tried all sorts of tricks with simplify(...) and convert(...), with assumptions, but did not get anywhere.  Any clues?

Versions: Maple 2016 and 2017.

Let A and B be regions in space defined through f(x,y,z) > 0 and g(x,y,z) > 0, respectively.  How does one plot the surface of the object A ∩ B in Maple?

In Mathematica there is a command RegionPlot3D for that.  See sample here.  Perhaps there is an equivalent one in Maple that I don't know of.

Consider a standard initial/boundary value problem for the heat equation on the interval x ∈ [0,1]:

restart;
pde := diff(u(x,t),t) = diff(u(x,t),x,x);
ic := u(x,0) = f(x);
bc := u(0,t)=0,  u(1,t)=0;

Then
pdsolve({pde, ic, bc});
produces the expected Fourier series solution.

However, if we change the interval to x ∈ [-1,1], as in:
bc := u(-1,t)=0,  u(1,t)=0;
pdsolve({pde, ic, bc});
then Maple fails to return a solution.  Why?