{"name": "PlanetX", "package_name": "planetx", "description": "3D globe for QGIS: satellite imagery, terrain, atmosphere, borders, roads and labels, project layers on the globe, My Places, ruler, map synchronization, place search and grab-the-Earth navigation", "about": "A 3D globe in its own window inside QGIS. The whole Earth is shown\nfrom space down to single streets, with terrain relief and hill\nshading, a glowing atmosphere around the planet and sky at the\nhorizon. Esri World Imagery opens by default as an example base map.\nIt can be switched to OpenStreetMap or any XYZ Tiles connection set\nup in QGIS.\nThe Layers panel adds borders, place names,\nwater names, roads with their numbers, railways, airports, rivers,\nlakes, peaks and protected areas from OpenFreeMap vector tiles,\na coordinate grid, stars with the Milky Way, clouds and land and\nsea temperature from NASA GIBS. 3D buildings from\nOpenStreetMap rise from the ground near the camera.\nThe ruler measures ground length and heading, the elevation\nprofile of a path shows ascent and slopes. Coordinates show\nin degrees, degrees-minutes-seconds, UTM or MGRS. Places\nhave icons and a time of their own with a time slider,\nand a tour can be recorded from the screen.\nThe Sun row\nlights terrain and buildings by the position of the sun with\na dark night side, the 3D path and 3D polygon of the ruler\nmeasure over roofs and walls of buildings.\nThe Body icon puts the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, the\nGalilean moons, seven moons of Saturn, Ceres or Vesta in place of\nthe Earth, with global NASA and USGS imagery and terrain of Mars\nand the Moon from MOLA and LOLA heights, and opens the starry sky seen from the\ncentre of the celestial sphere: the Milky Way, stars,\nconstellation lines and names, the Sun, the Moon and the planets\nat the chosen time. The Demo icon with an academic cap opens\nprepared scenes: Perm, Boca Chica and the Japan Trench with a\nsection across the subduction zone on the Earth, landing sites\non Mars and the Moon, Jezero crater on Mars, constellations and bright objects in the\nsky.\nLabels stay upright, do not overlap and hide behind mountains and\nthe horizon. The label language follows QGIS or is chosen from\n15 languages and local names.\nLayers of the current project, vector and raster, lie on the globe\nin the map order of QGIS, labels of vector layers stay level like\ncity names.\nDrag the Earth with the left mouse\nbutton, it keeps rotating by inertia after release. The wheel zooms\nto the point under the cursor, the middle button or Shift with the\nleft button turns and tilts the view. A double click zooms to a\npoint, the right button zooms, Ctrl looks around, arrows, PageUp,\nPageDown, N, U and R move the view. The compass ring,\nlook and move sticks and the height slider stay in the corner of\nthe view as a faint outline. The globe follows the QGIS map window or leads it, in any\nmap coordinate system. A click in the Identify mode lists the\nfeatures of the project layers under the point and selects them on\nthe map, selection on the map shows on the globe.\nMy Places keep placemarks, paths, polygons and\nmeasurements in a shared file of the QGIS profile. They are drawn\nby clicks on the globe. The ruler measures lines, paths,\npolygons and circles on the WGS84 ellipsoid. Save view puts a\nplacemark that restores the height, heading and tilt. Tours fly\nover My Places and along paths. A snapshot of the view goes to a\nfile or into a QGIS layout. KML and KMZ open into My Places and a\nfolder saves back to KML. Places rise above the ground and extend\nto it as walls and blocks. Point layers with a time field show as\ngrowing tracks along the QGIS Temporal Controller. A scene saves\nthe whole view to a file, a tour records to PNG frames.\nType a place name or coordinates in the Search field and the\ncamera flies there smoothly, the place found gets a red pin.\nA PDF manual with pictures in Russian and English opens from the\nAbout window.\nRequires OpenGL 3.3 and PyOpenGL, which ships with QGIS on Windows.\nTested on QGIS 3.36 (Qt 5) and 4.0 (Qt 6).\nImagery: Esri, Vantor, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User\nCommunity. Map data \u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, vector tiles\nOpenFreeMap. Terrain: Mapzen Terrain Tiles (SRTM, GMTED, ETOPO1\nand other sources). Clouds: NASA GIBS, VIIRS. Stars: Yale Bright\nStar Catalogue. Milky Way: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center\nScientific Visualization Studio, Gaia DR2: ESA/Gaia/DPAC.\nMars: NASA, USGS, Viking MDIM2.1. Moon: USGS, LRO LOLA. Tiles of\nboth: OpenPlanetaryMap. Mars heights: NASA MGS MOLA MEGDR. Moon\nheights: NASA LRO LOLA GDR. Other bodies: global mosaics of USGS\nAstrogeology and NASA Photojournal from MESSENGER, Magellan,\nGalileo, Voyager, Cassini and Dawn data. Constellations and star names:\nd3-celestial, \u00a9 Olaf Frohn. Planets: JPL orbital elements.\nLandsat 1-5 MSS images were added after a discussion with Nadezhda\n(https://github.com/nadiopt-cell), the author of QGIS plugins for\nloading satellite images.\nDeveloped with the support of Inform++ LLC (https://www.informpp.ru/).", "homepage": "https://www.informpp.ru/\u0433\u043b\u0430\u0432\u043d\u0430\u044f-\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0446\u0430/qgis-planetx", "repository": "https://github.com/Valery35/planetx", "tracker": "https://github.com/Valery35/planetx/issues", "author": "\u041e\u041e\u041e \u00ab\u0418\u043d\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043c++\u00bb", "tags": ["3d", "globe", "earth", "openstreetmap", "osm", "navigation", "opengl", "terrain", "dem", "satellite", "imagery", "atmosphere", "labels", "vector tiles", "mars", "moon", "sky", "stars", "constellations", "planets", "mercury", "venus", "jupiter", "europa", "titan"], "downloads": 1213, "latest_version": "1.2.1", "versions": [{"version": "1.2.1", "experimental": false, "qgis_min": "3.36.0", "qgis_max": "4.99.0", "downloads": 79, "uploaded_by": "valery", "upload_datetime": "2026-10-18T12:00:33.300157"}, {"version": "0.87.0", "experimental": false, "qgis_min": "3.36.0", "qgis_max": "4.99.0", "downloads": 155, "uploaded_by": "valery", "upload_datetime": "2026-10-15T00:33:56.815363"}, {"version": "0.77.0", "experimental": false, "qgis_min": "3.36.0", "qgis_max": "4.99.0", "downloads": 172, "uploaded_by": "valery", "upload_datetime": "2026-10-12T14:29:11.620680"}, {"version": "0.69.2", "experimental": false, "qgis_min": "3.36.0", "qgis_max": "4.99.0", "downloads": 35, "uploaded_by": "valery", "upload_datetime": "2026-10-11T16:14:24.970243"}, {"version": "0.57.0", "experimental": false, "qgis_min": "3.36.0", "qgis_max": "4.99.0", "downloads": 189, "uploaded_by": "valery", "upload_datetime": "2026-10-08T12:48:18.638000"}, {"version": "0.55.0", "experimental": false, "qgis_min": "3.36.0", "qgis_max": "4.99.0", "downloads": 26, "uploaded_by": "valery", "upload_datetime": "2026-10-08T07:20:07.408308"}, {"version": "0.40.0", "experimental": false, "qgis_min": "3.36.0", "qgis_max": "4.99.0", "downloads": 158, "uploaded_by": "valery", "upload_datetime": "2026-10-05T14:34:34.615772"}, {"version": "0.39.0", "experimental": false, "qgis_min": "3.36.0", "qgis_max": "4.99.0", "downloads": 18, "uploaded_by": "valery", "upload_datetime": "2026-10-05T13:50:20.404594"}, {"version": "0.37.0", "experimental": false, "qgis_min": "3.36.0", "qgis_max": "4.99.0", "downloads": 24, "uploaded_by": "valery", "upload_datetime": "2026-10-05T12:33:31.387112"}, {"version": "0.24.1", "experimental": false, "qgis_min": "3.36.0", "qgis_max": "4.99.0", "downloads": 158, "uploaded_by": "valery", "upload_datetime": "2026-10-01T23:20:16.830097"}, {"version": "0.6.1", "experimental": false, "qgis_min": "3.36.0", "qgis_max": "4.99.0", "downloads": 199, "uploaded_by": "valery", "upload_datetime": "2026-09-28T14:28:45.111243"}]}