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maxerickson 16 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The UN challenges five centuries of cartography

Web Mercator is easily the most used projection, now and in all of history.

moffkalast 16 days ago [–]

Yep. All online maps, google, apple, bing, osm, it's all transverse mercator. Only google earth actually runs a full globe.

agos 14 days ago | [–]

I was under the impression that they had a globe only when zoomed out, then transitions to web Mercator as you zoom in. Is it not the case? FYI Apple Maps also shows a globe

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