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Is there a good free one I can use on a local server?

https://maplibre.org/ is a free fork of Mapbox v1.x before they brought in their licensing model.

It seems to zoom out as flat map, I was looking for something that zoom outs to a globe.

Check out CesiumJS, its used heavily in aerospace applications. Heres their demo page https://sandcastle.cesium.com/