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Re: Mars, Moon on Google Maps

#32

Post by andrewwharton »

dredmorbius wrote: post #25
gumby wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you talking about? They have 100% coverage for all streets on both planets. Canals, on the other hand...

Technically correct.

Although I think you'll end up with a divide by 0 error. :)

/pedantry

Re: Mars, Moon on Google Maps

#33

Post by _lce0 »

To make this work on Firefox mobile, first activate desktop mode, and then click on any link.

Can't really understand why a perfectly capable device is access denied without such trick, it clearly works.

Re: Mars, Moon on Google Maps

#34

Post by rahkiin »

Wei-1 wrote: post #14

Google puts one of their offices on Mars. https://www.google.com/maps/space/mars/@-4.5632909,137.39354... https://www.google.com/maps/space/mars/@-4.5642766,137.39039...

I don't really see how this is funny or nice. There is no office on mars. And this is what brings fake information into the world.

Just show Mars as it is.

Re: Mars, Moon on Google Maps

#35

Post by kuschku »

_lce0 wrote: post #33

To make this work on Firefox mobile, first activate desktop mode, and then click on any link. Can't really understand why a perfectly capable device is access denied without such trick, it clearly works.

Google does this with several of their sites, intentionally making them worse on Firefox (Desktop or Mobile). Firefox Mobile actually already fakes a Chrome Mobile UA in some situations to get around that.

Examples include the Google Search, Google Maps, or YouTube.

I simply configured via about:config the above mentioned UA faker for Google’s sites to fake Chrome’s UA.

Re: Mars, Moon on Google Maps

#36

Post by janus24 »

rahkiin wrote: post #34
Wei-1 wrote: post #14

Google puts one of their offices on Mars. https://www.google.com/maps/space/mars/@-4.5632909,137.39354... https://www.google.com/maps/space/mars/@-4.5642766,137.39039...

I don't really see how this is funny or nice. There is no office on mars. And this is what brings fake information into the world. Just show Mars as it is.

You don't have a lot of humour

Re: Mars, Moon on Google Maps

#37

Post by overlordalex »

danielfaust wrote: post #19

Nice landslide on Mars https://www.google.com/maps/space/mars/@3.8915157,-44.053898...

That landslide looks like it's about 10km across. That's absolutely incredible!

On that note, the scale bar in the bottom is almost impossible to use - it's not in a place where I can easily compare what I'm looking at to what the bar represents - mainly due to the placement of the controls. Having it on the left of that grouping would be much more useful

Re: Mars, Moon on Google Maps

#39

Post by [deleted] »

rahkiin wrote: post #34
Wei-1 wrote: post #14

Google puts one of their offices on Mars. https://www.google.com/maps/space/mars/@-4.5632909,137.39354... https://www.google.com/maps/space/mars/@-4.5642766,137.39039...

I don't really see how this is funny or nice. There is no office on mars. And this is what brings fake information into the world. Just show Mars as it is.

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Re: Mars, Moon on Google Maps

#40

Post by Piskvorrr »

kuschku wrote: post #35
_lce0 wrote: post #33

To make this work on Firefox mobile, first activate desktop mode, and then click on any link. Can't really understand why a perfectly capable device is access denied without such trick, it clearly works.

Google does this with several of their sites, intentionally making them worse on Firefox (Desktop or Mobile). Firefox Mobile actually already fakes a Chrome Mobile UA in some situations to get around that. Examples include the Google Search, Google Maps, or YouTube. I simply configured via about:config the above mentioned UA faker for Google’s sites to fake Chrome’s UA.

We're in for a sequel of "Only works in MSIE." Brace yourselves.
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