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The company Google is increasingly trying to bring quality services to its customers, which is also related to the improvement of maps and navigation. Most recently in the application you will find a function that koneactually shows the Earth as a globe and not as a flat map. This option is intended to ensure a more accurate representation of the Earth in the case of the computer version.

The new 3D processing was demonstrated by Google on its Twitter, where it is introduced with the description "The image of Greenland no longer resembles Africa in size". With this humorous reference, the company responds to the size disproportion between individual map elements. However, you won't find this feature in the mobile app, so the Earth is still constructed as a flat map section after zooming in and out.

In the following gallery you will find a comparison of the previous flat and new 3D display in Google Maps"

In this case, Google used the Mercator projection, which ensures the transformation of a curved relief into a straight, flat form. The truth is that this common system has become, so to speak, the standard in several applications that offer the display of the Earth, but the negative is the excessive distortion of the surrounding terrain. This phenomenon causes comparable dimensions of areas oriented near the equator, but landscapes located near the poles are depicted in much larger dimensions. Related to the team is the description above, which refers to the disparity of Africa and Greenland. On a flat map, Greenland is larger than the continent of Africa itself, which is of course nonsense. Africa is actually 14 times larger.

In 2009, an employee of the company Google itself spoke about this problem. According to the company, this system significantly helps in displaying individual angles of roads and highways. "When we first launched Google Maps, we didn't use Mercator. This caused the traffic network to be significantly distorted in higher-lying cities like Stockholm," noted one employee.ancov, working on the project. There is no word yet on the possible arrival of the same display on mobile devices, so it is more than possible that we will not see it at all in the near future.

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