A flight simulator game is also included. Additional globes for the Moon and Mars are available, as well as a tool for viewing the night sky. In addition to Earth navigation, Google Earth provides a series of other tools through the desktop application. Recently Google has revealed that Google Earth now covers more than 98 percent of the world, and has captured 10 million miles of Street View imagery, a distance that could circle the globe more than 400 times. Google Earth is able to show various kinds of images overlaid on the surface of the earth and is also a Web Map Service client. Users may use the program to add their own data using Keyhole Markup Language and upload them through various sources, such as forums or blogs. The program can also be downloaded on a smartphone or tablet, using a touch screen or stylus to navigate. Users can explore the globe by entering addresses and coordinates, or by using a keyboard or mouse. The program maps the Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles. Globe mode aside, the Google Maps business was completely revamped in May, and the company also promised new social and augmented reality features were on the way.Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The Google Maps team has been hard at work as of late.
Google Maps was first released more than 13 years ago - hopefully, it won’t take another 13 before Google Maps mobile gets the 3D globe treatment. The mobile version of Google Maps, both the apps and the website, still show the world as a plane. Put another way, the spherical map cannot be represented as a plane without some sort of distortion - see stereographic projection, Gaussian curvature, and the video below. And no, we’re not just talking about Google fighting back against flat Earth truthers.Ī map on a sphere cannot be transferred to a plane in a conformal and area-preserving way. The change means that by depicting the world in a spherical form, Google Maps shows a more accurate representation of the world. This is all thanks to WebGL (although not WebGL 2).
We tested it on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge - they all showed the globe just fine. Globe mode only works on desktop, but all major browsers are supported, we’re told.
Google Earth, watch out - Google Maps is coming for you. You can manipulate the globe as you’d expect - spin it, zoom in, and zoom back out.
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