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Obligatory XKCD https://www.xkcd.com/977/ https://www.xkcd.com/977/
by rm_-rf_slash 8y ago
Obligatory XKCD
https://www.xkcd.com/977/ https://www.xkcd.com/977/
- hackme1234 8y agoYour username is obsolete in Ubuntu. It simply gives an error message.
- Ajedi32 8y agoGoogle decided to go with "A Globe".
- deathanatos 8y agoAt low zoom levels. Given the behavior of the poles (they're not viewable; the south is also a black hole…), I suspect that there's a very smoothly done transition to web mercator for the higher zoom levels.
- gefh 8y agoCorrect. At high zooms, the trig required in the spherical math becomes inaccurate, so we fade back to simple web mercator.
- astrodust 8y agoCartography wouldn't be able to use all these cheap tricks if the poles were habitable territory. Can you imagine the distortion on a map of a small town located at the pole if Mercator was used?