I’m pretty sure this is A/B testing on their part, but curious to see if anyone else is in that case
Now this is the type of conversation I can get behind!
Username definitely checks out!
Eh? It’s been a globe for years and years. You can even zoom out and view other planets and moons.
Probably country dependant, I have been stuck with Mercator for the last few years.
Also depends on the platform, the mobile app is the last bastion of flat-earth truth /s
If you turn on satellite and zoom out you even see current cloud cover
I’ve definitely seen this before (if you zoom out beyond the level where a projection makes sense, it switches to a globe). I was actually a little surprised when I tried it just now, and it stayed on the projection at any zoom level; I thought the globe was the only behavior until I read this and checked it.
Yeah, I think it does this on desktop but not on mobile. I remember it already doing this like 10 years ago
For me, it’s gone back and forth between a globe and a projection a few times over the past 5-10 years or so.
Forgot google maps was on Desktop 😅
It was a globe forever on desktop. Changes to a projection when you zoom in enough.
They surely have a fallback in case someone’s PC did not support rendering the globe fast enough
I’ve seen it before, but never thought to seek out the projection, but I could set the maps to “Globe View” under the layers button in the down left corner. It’s much nicer now :)
never in my life have I seed this
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On est certain de ça ? Peut-être qu’il y a plusieurs personnes derrière le compte “Camus” !
Camus Corp, bientôt dans le CAC40!
Mercator projection is best, with gnomonic and equirectangular coming in at distant second and third. Globe perspective projection has niche uses. All others are useless/solve a problem that is irrelevant.
