But if you're doing it that way, why would you need higher precision floats to render a larger world? Single precision should be good enough for any draw distance, because the object dimension on the screen falls as 1/r.
If you want to move in the environment, you want to be able to store the relative positions of a teacup and a table in virtual London with the same precision as in virtual New York. So the coordinates of objects should be stored as integers. Then to render the world, the camera coordinate (also an integer) is subtracted from all objects, with no loss of precision, and the result cast to float for 3D rendering.
