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So it's no longer a map application, because it's producing weird non-standard projections, tiles that can't be stitched/georeferenced properly etc. Will Googl
by pseudonym2 8y ago
So it's no longer a map application, because it's producing weird non-standard projections, tiles that can't be stitched/georeferenced properly etc.
Will Google support and maintain an actual maps application?
Or will they merge google earth and google maps together in an even less capable tool purely for consumers to wow at?
Castrating Google Earth with the webgl version and locking it into Chrome was bad enough. I wish this stops here.
- CommieBobDole 8y agoGoogle Earth desktop edition is still available. And it's still approximately ten thousand times better than the browser edition. https://www.google.com/earth/download/gep/agree.html https://www.google.com/earth/download/gep/agree.html
- pseudonym2 8y agoIt's gradually phased out. Right now it's essentially abandonware. At some point in the future they'll just kill it out of the blue. Things that provide value to advanced users don't matter to most of these "data-based" companies.
- modeless 8y agoPerspective projection is not weird or non-standard. In some sense you could consider it the least weird projection, since it's what your eyes actually see when looking at a globe. But if you just can't get enough of Mercator, the option is still there in the hamburger menu (labeled "Globe").