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Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth

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

takyon writes:

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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @10:46PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @10:46PM (#717344)

    You're probably thinking of Google Earth, which is/was a similar but different thing with more of a focus on 3D. That represented the earth as a sphere when you zoomed out.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @11:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @11:33PM (#717360)

    google earth != maps.google.com

    It has been a globe for awhile if I zoomed out hence my comment about the weather too. I did have GE on my phone a few years back and it did the same thing I uninstalled it when maps.google.com started doing the same thing. Maybe the android app? Never tried zooming out on that one.