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Google Maps used to show a globe at low zooms by default: https://9to5google.com/2018/08/03/google-maps-globe-zoom-out/ https://9to5google.com/2018/08/03/google
by panic 6y ago
Google Maps used to show a globe at low zooms by default: https://9to5google.com/2018/08/03/google-maps-globe-zoom-out/ https://9to5google.com/2018/08/03/google-maps-globe-zoom-out...
Now you have to click a button to turn it on: https://old.reddit.com/r/GoogleMaps/comments/eoav6s/did_they_disable_the_globe/ https://old.reddit.com/r/GoogleMaps/comments/eoav6s/did_they...
- chrisseaton 6y agoLook at the screenshot - notice how compressed Italy is? That’s a projection issue. The projection issues are still there.
- xaduha 6y agoFirst of all Google Maps is cruder than Google Earth, so let's just use https://earth.google.com/web https://earth.google.com/web I think the point here is that it is interactive and can be made as accurate as you want by moving around, zooming in and looking at the center. Not at stuff at the edges which might be distorted a bit, because yes, it's still a projection. Go to Map Style and enable gridlines and then try to argue it's not accurate.
- SamBam 6y agoYes, but our brains readily interpret it as a rendering of a 3D globe, and do not make the assumption that the shape or size of Italy is literally like that. Further, you can trivially drag it to spin the globe.