INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Go to Google Maps and zoom out
Halfway out, the map perspective changes from a traditional flat map view to an interactive globe
Zoom all the way out and the Earth is presented as a globe with landmasses of the appropriate size
Greenland is no longer the size of Africa and all is right with the world.On flat maps, it impossible to represent land mass size on a
Objects in the north and south become distorted as the flat map compensates for the flattening of the globe
This is most evident in the commonly used Mercator projections that properly represents the size of land around the equator but super-sizes
land in the Arctic and Antarctic.Now, when Google Maps is used on Desktop, users will see the appropriate size of land masses
The update is great but I have yet to find the giant ice wall that preventing all of life from sliding off the side of the flat earth and
onto the back of the giant turtle we&re riding through the vast emptiness of space.With 3D Globe Mode on Google Maps desktop, Greenland's
projection is no longer the size of Africa
Just zoom all the way out at https://t.co/mIZTya01K3pic.twitter.com/CIkkS7It8d— Google Maps (@googlemaps) August 2, 2018
