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posted by chromas on Saturday August 04 2018, @02:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the Checkmate! dept.

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 The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday August 04 2018, @06:21PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday August 04 2018, @06:21PM (#717278) Homepage Journal

    It doesn't need to, it only needs to fit on the backs of the giant elephants standing on the turtle's shell. It's still a bloody stupid way to shape a world though. Why go through all the bother of figuring out a way to keep the people on the bottom from falling off when you can just make a sensible shape like a disk?

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