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Google Maps now zooms out to a globe instead of a flat Earth
Google is finished thinking two-dimensionally with Maps and now shows the Earth as a globe rather than a flat "Mercator" projection as before. You won't notice the change when you first open the app, but if you zoom out far enough, you'll eventually get a moon's-eye view of our world. That means you'll see the world in a more realistic way: "With 3D Globe Mode on Google Maps desktop, Greenland's projection is no longer the size of Africa," Google Maps said on Twitter.
Also at TechCrunch.
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(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Monday August 06 2018, @02:11AM
>Also, it seems Google future proofed it and melted the northern ice cap.
The North Pole ice cap is just that, an ice cap. There's no land/continent underneath, unlike Antarctica. Google Maps, like most non-specialized maps, doesn't show floating glaciers.
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