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.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday August 04 2018, @06:21PM
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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