[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Change low zoom projection from Mercator to Globe/Sphere (#2604)

[Seth Deegan]

I would agree that this is a concern, but these are drivers from 10 years ago. Those who experience these issues would probably have updated them after experiencing that other commonplace sites that WebGL do not work. 

I also did some research and came across this concern:
> Unfortunately, hardware vendors stop producing drivers for legacy products (anything released before last Tuesday). In some cases, your PC vendor will insist on releasing their own modified driver updates and there’s no guarantee they’ll do that. Your graphics card may be WebGL-compatible, but it’ll be blocked in Firefox if the driver version is 0.0.0.1 behind the approved list. 

From: https://www.sitepoint.com/firefox-enable-webgl-blacklisted-graphics-card/

This reason is also understandable. WebGL is a must-have for graphics drivers currently and this situation only seems to be a problem for older hardware.

For any of these instances, I would argue that **leaving Leaflet as a defaultable map** and implementing a WebGL Globe would offer much more benefits than concerns.

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