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The visualization is really cool but for daily use seems more practical being able to plot long trip routes without them disappearing on the back of the globe than being able to assess the true size of landmasses: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Madrid/Sydney,+New+South+Wal...

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I get what you're saying, but I'm not sure if planning trips to the other side of the globe qualifies as "daily use" either :-)

I think it's neat to see that the route is along a great circle -- that wasn't clear at all before this change.

Millions of people do it everyday, so it seems right to call it daily use: https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1018260113814061057...

Unfortunately, the line drawing doesn't make this as cool as it could be. The line representing the flight from BOS to PEK is drawn due west, as would look natural on a 2D map. The real flight (and shortest route) heads north and passes near the north pole.

Hope they can update this, which would make international flights seem even more impressive than they already do.

Yeah, ugh. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Boston,+MA/Beijing,+China/@6...

Yeah the flights in particular need to be updated for this projection.

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