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Re: Why does Google maps use the inaccurate, ancient and distorted Mercator Projection?

ticktrader Dec 10, 2009 2:37 PM
Posted in group: Google Maps
That is the most ridiculous response I've heard.  It's a computer, you tell it what to do not the other way around.  Your zoomed out projection of the world should use accurate projections and then switch to angle preserving projections as you zoom in.