[general]
name=PlanetX
qgisMinimumVersion=3.36
qgisMaximumVersion=4.99
description=3D globe for QGIS in the spirit of Google Earth: 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
version=0.6.1
author=ООО «Информ++»
email=xbbster@gmail.com
about=A 3D globe in its own window inside QGIS. The whole Earth is shown
      from space down to single streets, with terrain relief and hill
      shading, a glowing atmosphere around the planet and sky at the
      horizon. Esri World Imagery opens by default as an example base map.
      It can be switched to OpenStreetMap or any XYZ Tiles connection set
      up in QGIS.
      The Layers panel, as in Google Earth, adds borders, place names,
      water names, roads with their numbers, railways, airports, rivers,
      lakes, peaks and protected areas from OpenFreeMap vector tiles.
      Labels stay upright, do not overlap and hide behind mountains and
      the horizon. The label language follows QGIS or is chosen from
      15 languages and local names.
      Layers of the current project, vector and raster, lie on the globe
      in the map order of QGIS.
      Drag the Earth with the left mouse button, it keeps rotating by
      inertia after release. The wheel zooms to the point under the cursor,
      the middle button or Shift with the left button turns and tilts
      the view. The globe follows the QGIS map window or leads it, in any
      map coordinate system. A click in the Identify mode lists the
      features of the project layers under the point and selects them on
      the map, selection on the map shows on the globe.
      My Places, as in Google Earth, keep placemarks, paths, polygons and
      measurements in a shared file of the QGIS profile. They are drawn
      by clicks right on the globe. The ruler measures lines, paths,
      polygons and circles on the WGS84 ellipsoid. Save view puts a
      placemark that restores the height, heading and tilt. Tours fly
      over My Places and along paths. A snapshot of the view goes to a
      file or into a QGIS layout. KML and KMZ open into My Places and a
      folder saves back to KML. Places rise above the ground and extend
      to it as walls and blocks. Point layers with a time field show as
      growing tracks along the QGIS Temporal Controller. A scene saves
      the whole view to a file, a tour records to PNG frames.
      Type a place name or coordinates in the Search field and the
      camera flies there, the place found gets a red pin. The flight goes
      along the van Wijk and Nuij path.
      Requires OpenGL 3.3 and PyOpenGL, which ships with QGIS on Windows.
      Tested on QGIS 3.36 (Qt 5) and 4.0 (Qt 6).
      Imagery: Esri, Vantor, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User
      Community. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, vector tiles
      OpenFreeMap. Terrain: Mapzen Terrain Tiles (SRTM, GMTED, ETOPO1
      and other sources).
      Developed with the support of Inform++ LLC (www.informpp.ru).
tracker=https://github.com/Valery35/planetx/issues
repository=https://github.com/Valery35/planetx
homepage=https://github.com/Valery35/planetx
tags=3d,globe,earth,google earth,openstreetmap,osm,terrain,dem,satellite,imagery,atmosphere,navigation,labels,vector tiles,opengl
category=Web
icon=icon.png
experimental=False
deprecated=False
changelog=0.6.1 My Places shows an icon of the kind before each name -
      placemark, path, polygon or saved view. A new placemark gets a
      numbered name at once, My placemark 1, My path 1, View 1, each kind
      counts on its own.
      0.6.0 Scenes: the whole view - camera, time, layers, settings
      and a My Places folder with its tour - saves to a file and opens on
      another computer. Database passwords stay out of the file. The
      record button on the tour bar saves the tour as PNG frames for a
      video, each frame waits for the tiles. The status line shows what
      is still loading and when loading has stalled.
      0.5.2 Growing tracks: Track in the menu of a point layer shows
      it as paths of its objects along the QGIS Temporal Controller, with
      the camera following along the motion if wanted. Labels no longer
      break drawing in QGIS 3.40 with an old PyOpenGL. No errors after the
      globe is closed. A frame no longer stops on an OpenGL error left by
      another plugin.
      0.5.1 The base map no longer stops loading and stays blurred,
      the fault came in 0.5.0. The globe turns as smoothly with large
      places, such as the regions of a country from KML, as without them.
      Place properties as in Google Earth: name, description, colors,
      height above ground and extending to the ground, a path becomes a
      wall and a polygon a block. Google Earth files: Open KML or KMZ puts
      the file into My Places with folders, styles and views, Save as KML
      writes a folder back.
      0.5.0 Tours as in Google Earth: Play tour flies over the
      checked places of My Places or a folder, a saved view restores its
      height, heading and tilt, along a path the camera travels the line.
      Folders in My Places with dragging of places and folders. View
      snapshot to PNG or JPEG larger than the window, the view into a
      QGIS layout as a picture embedded in the project. Transparency and
      properties of project layers in the globe list. Hide sidebar
      button. Camera motion goes first, tiles load less often while
      moving.
      0.4.3 The plugin passes the Qt 6 check of the QGIS plugin
      repository. Nothing changes in the globe itself.
      0.4.2 My Places is a folder right under the Globe row, as in
      Google Earth, shown even when empty. Its check box shows or hides
      all places, a double click on a place flies there. Save view is a
      button of its own and puts a placemark that restores the height,
      heading and tilt. The QGIS bookmarks menu is removed.
      0.4.1 A large polygon no longer hangs QGIS while it is drawn.
      Arrow cursor over the globe, closed hand while dragging, cross for
      the ruler, new placemark and identify.
      0.4.0 My Places as in Google Earth: placemarks, paths and
      polygons drawn on the globe and saved in a shared file. Ruler with
      line, path, polygon and circle on the WGS84 ellipsoid, measurements
      saved to My Places. QGIS bookmarks and Save view with heading and
      tilt. Selection both ways between the map and the globe. Layers as
      on the QGIS map and new layers straight to the globe. Less detailed
      imagery instead of gray tiles where detailed imagery is missing.
      0.3.2 Synchronization with the QGIS map window in any coordinate
      system. Identify features by a click on the globe. Coordinates and
      elevation under the cursor in the status line. Borders, place names
      and terrain are on by default, other layers off.
      0.3.1 Place search by name as in Google Earth, with a red pin
      on the place found and a list of other matches. Search runs through
      Nominatim.
      0.3.0 Esri World Imagery by default. Project layers on the
      globe in the QGIS map order. Layers panel as in Google Earth with
      borders, place and water names, roads and road numbers, railways,
      airports, rivers, lakes, peaks and protected areas. Labels in the
      style of Google Earth with a choice of language. Terrain can be
      switched off, vertical exaggeration. Refresh button and automatic
      refresh. Own PlanetX toolbar.
      0.2.0 Terrain relief with hill shading, the camera stays above
      the ground. Atmosphere: glow around the planet, sky and haze at the
      horizon. Base map list with OpenStreetMap and the XYZ Tiles
      connections of QGIS, for example satellite imagery. About window.
      0.1.1 The PlanetX button is now on the Plugins toolbar. The Web
      toolbar, where it was before, is hidden in QGIS by default.
      0.1.0 First release. Globe with the OpenStreetMap base map,
      grab-the-Earth navigation with inertia, zoom to the cursor, turn
      and tilt, fly-to coordinates.
