A separate 'pinch' control ( for zooming in and out ) will need to be added so the globe knows the difference. Mobile devices, smartphones, and tablets will react to touch gestures and rotate the globe.

A daytime lighting mode is also provided. You can filter by magnitude to show only those of a certain magnitude or higher. The globe displays all global earthquakes which occurred in the last hour, day, week and month, with a separate option to view significant quakes which had noticable impact on humanity and neighboring communities. The reason these two land masses look relative in size on a 2D map is to compensate for the circular shape of the Earth, which stretches the countries out.The 3D WebGL Globe is a data visualization of all earthquakes on our tiny planet. In the announcement, the company notes that Greenland, which is 836,300 square miles, is no longer the size of Africa which is 11.73 million square miles. Google Maps announced the change on Twitter and wasn't shy about the flattening issue fix. (opens in a new tab) (Opens in a new tab) Earth is limited to Google Chrome and as it uses a proprietary 3D rendering engine based on Native Client (Opens in a new tab) software that is exclusive to the browser. The latter has always presented the world in 3D and is used more for storytelling, exploration, and of course education. While this does confirm that Google Maps is not part of the flat earth movement, it also speaks to the importance and impact of the company's other mapping service Google Earth. What's best about this update is that it's coming to all desktop users regardless of the respective web browser, thanks to the global Web GL standard.

These extremely good Google Maps features that everyone definitely wanted are finally sort of available

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