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yeah, computers and smartphones have made globes wildly out of fashion
by agos 4y ago
yeah, computers and smartphones have made globes wildly out of fashion
- mjevans 4y agoIt's too bad Maps doesn't behave more like 'Earth' does / did (?). I haven't even installed Google Earth in years, but now that I zoom a maps window all the way out I'm sad it doesn't become a sphere projection in 3D.
- markdown 4y agoYou don't have to install it anymore. https://earth.google.com/web/ https://earth.google.com/web/
- kzrdude 4y agoGoogle maps zooming out does become a globe for me (Firefox/Linux), why not for you? I see it has an on/off option for globe in the layers selection.. let's check in incognito.. aha, it's non-globe by default!
- mjevans 4y agoClick Layers > Click More > Lower left, check the Globe View. That's buried levels of undiscoverable.
- flohofwoe 4y agoWeird, when I zoom out on https://www.google.com/maps/ https://www.google.com/maps/ it becomes a globe, I thought that's the default behaviour, but maybe I changed a setting at some point?
- jollyllama 4y agoThey take up more space; a map can be folded/rolled up for storage or hung on a wall. Games like risk also much easier to do with a 2d map.