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You can represent size or shape correctly, not both. Anyone who uses the Gall-Peters projection is a cop.
> You can represent size or shape correctly, not both. You can if you don't mind having a non-rectangular map border. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
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There are cartographically reasonable equal-area or nearly-equal-area projections. Why are we still talking about Gall-Peters? Peters was a charlatan who knew very little geography (he didn't even want to give credit to the geographer who discovered his map), and the Gall-Peters projection is Mercator for old-school hippies who think they can promote equality by making Africa taller.
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If there's a job where I just get to explore the wonder of Google Maps all day, I want it.
Now it's a Chrome browser promotion. Google Earth requires Google's browser.
So it's no longer a map application, because it's producing weird non-standard projections, tiles that can't be stitched/georeferenced properly etc. Will Google support and maintain an actual maps application? Or will they merge google earth and google maps together in an even less capable tool purely for consumers to wow at? Castrating Google Earth with the webgl version and locking it into Chrome was bad enough. I…
Google Earth desktop edition is still available. And it's still approximately ten thousand times better than the browser edition. https://www.google.com/earth/download/gep/agree.html
It never was a flat map. That was just a kludge to make it work in the browser. The original application, from Keyhole, was 3D from 2003 or so. NVidia used to offer it as a promotion, before Google bought it. Now it's a Chrome browser promotion. Google Earth requires Google's browser.
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That's still not an accurate map. 3D maps don't have projection issues, they can have near perfect representation of the world.
The eyes see a 2-dimensional picture. Computer displays produce a 2-dimensional picture. There is no such thing as a “3D map” on a standard computer display. Only an orthographic (or maybe perspective) projection which animates in response to user input. In general an orthographic projection is a poor choice. The thing going for it is that it is easy to understand by analogy to a physical globe, and human spatial und…
It even allows you to see satelite pictures of other planets! I'm not sure how old is that feature, but it's awesome. You just have to unzoom far away from earth and it'll show you a menu where you can choose where you want to go. https://www.google.com/maps/space/mercury/@47.5337211,-157.4...