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Are you sure? I just checked for myself, but (on the google maps version I am served) the south pole is still shows as a black hole when zoomed out far enough t

by tda 8y ago

Are you sure? I just checked for myself, but (on the google maps version I am served) the south pole is still shows as a black hole when zoomed out far enough that the earth is rendered as a sphere. Also the elongated shape of the tiles near the poles looks an awful lot like a mercator projection.

TimSchumann 8y ago
Pretty sure? I'm just going off a cursory examining of the github repo linked on the website from the OP and a conversation I had in passing with a friend who works on the google maps team. Also, I'm not a mathematician and everything I know about computer science (and most of math for that matter) I've taught myself or learned on the job. So... maybe I'm using the wrong terminology? I'm 98% certain the library is the same one currently used on google maps web app.