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<p>Reading through this I see you are suggesting using merkator tiles on a globe, the whole point of merkator is that it is flat and this wouldn't work too well.</p>
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<p>But it does work currently, which is honestly great. Also, if we were to use Leaflet as a fallback, merkator tiles would still have to be generated.</p>
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<p>Making a 3D globe to me would be something done with vector tiles, after those have become available.</p>
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<p>I love vector tiles too. I suggested using 3DTiles (Standard: <a href="https://www.ogc.org/standards/3DTiles" rel="nofollow">https://www.ogc.org/standards/3DTiles</a> Possible Renderer: <a href="https://github.com/Geodan/pg2b3dm">https://github.com/Geodan/pg2b3dm</a> ) for the globe as well.</p>
<p>I'm not sure how hard implementing 3DTiles would be though (API supports lad/long but not height, idk what osm-carto would do, you'd probably need to look more into the renderer).</p>

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