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Post #AvylDZK8cv6B9Xphc8 by [email protected] |
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There's been talk on the Fedi about why online maps like OSM and Google use… |
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Post #AvylDZRw9vKxXjTvlo by [email protected] |
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Mercator's world map of 1569 was useful to navigators at the time because i… |
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Post #AvylDZZjgvZjvv89vU by [email protected] |
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Interestingly, I see that Apple Maps (on iOS and macOS) wraps its tiles onto a … |
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Post #AvylDZhBFFWwJ0c6Wu by [email protected] |
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@futzle I think that marble ( marble.kde.org/ ) wraps pre-rendered tiles from v… |
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Post #AvylDZoGotCYezvla4 by [email protected] |
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@valhalla Someone alerted me to marble's existence a couple of hours ago. V… |
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Post #AvylDbWGSnzFxjWPnE by [email protected] |
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One fun fact about Mercator is that it's often misrepresented as the map pr… |
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Post #AvylDw3c6WXxexHKYC by [email protected] |
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@futzle yeah, that post arrived to my instance just after I had finished writin… |
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Post #AvylGRp8y3fGlFhyee by [email protected] |
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@futzle google maps has an option to turn on sphere view though. so it's ju… |
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Post #AvylGRvWaKlj52h4bI by [email protected] |
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@Stoori Oh wow, how long has that been there? |
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Post #AvylGS2c9yRLR20jeS by [email protected] |
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@futzle uhm, idk, years at least |
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Post #AvylGS8HosydicfGUa by [email protected] |
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@Stoori 2018 apparently. https://www.showmetech.com.br/en/google-maps-has-a-new… |
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Post #Avz2OQHOIAQLVbJEqO by [email protected] |
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@futzle The globe projection requires vector map tiles to work well - openstree… |
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Post #Avz2OQOpqUNXsgnBRo by [email protected] |
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@russss @futzle @maplibre how does osmapp.org do it, do you know? |
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Post #Avz2OWF87UBG0KIW9Y by [email protected] |
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@PetraOleum they also use MapLibre! It's basically the only way of doing it… |
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Post #Avz2PLfou0pjVsB3Kq by [email protected] |
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@futzle You've inspired me to break out my Pocket Atlas, and based on the n… |
