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Theoretically you can try and find projection where most major seams are in un-navigable oceans and it won't hurt that much. My take is that they should allow
by guard-of-terra 11y ago
Theoretically you can try and find projection where most major seams are in un-navigable oceans and it won't hurt that much.
My take is that they should allow height to be coded in too.
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- techdragon 11y agoI had the fortune to be introduced to this by a Google employee and while they were not from the maps team, they had soaked up enough of the general Google way of doing things that their explanation was able to "hit home" very quickly. As a result one of the first things I asked them was "where are the corners?" and they confirmed my suspicions that they have "tilted" the cube slightly (the vertical edges are not parallel to meridians at the equator) and that a very rough approximate location for two of the corners is one is roughly in the great Australian bight on the South Australian coast line, and another one is roughly in the sea of Okhotsk between Japan and the far eastern half of Siberian region of Russia. TL;DR. Yes, yes they do try to put the vertices in areas where their distortion will be least noticed.