0.77.0 The images window gives a whole scene - the Whole scene,
source files item of the method list at the bottom of the window. All
bands, the cloud mask and the metadata are downloaded as they are to a
scene folder, a layer set of all bands goes to the project. The method
exists for Sentinel-2, Landsat, MSS, ASTER and MODIS, clipping to the
area stays the default. If the area lies beyond the edge of the scene
image, the window no longer adds empty layers and says that the bands
hold no data. This happened with ASTER from NASA, whose catalogue
knows only the scene frame.
0.76.0 The ASTER images here… item of the globe menu opens the
images window right on ASTER. The Search line finds the same action by
the words ASTER, minerals, kaolinite. The manual tells step by step
how to get a free NASA Earthdata key and enter it in the images
window.
0.75.0 ASTER images after 2006 from the NASA archive - the ASTER
since 2007 line of the images window. Search and preview go without
sign-in, the files by a free NASA Earthdata key, the window asks for
it once. After 2008 ASTER has only the visible, near infrared and
thermal bands.
0.74.0 ASTER images of 2000-2006 in the images window - 14 bands,
visible and near infrared at 15 m, shortwave infrared at 30 m, thermal
at 90 m, without sign-in or key. ASTER mineral indices for ore
exploration - kaolinite and alunite, sericite and muscovite,
carbonates, iron oxides, quartz. The layers are coloured over the
area, warm colours mean more of the mineral.
0.73.0 The All scene bands line of the images window puts into the
QGIS project one file with all bands of the image in the order of
their numbers. Sentinel-2 gives 12 bands at 10 m, Landsat 8-9 gives 8,
Landsat 4-7 gives 7, the thermal band is in kelvins. The bands are
named, the layer shows natural colours, another combination is chosen
in the layer properties.
0.72.0 Early Landsat images of 1972-1993. The Early Landsat images
1972-1993 here… item of the globe menu opens the images window on the
MSS scanner images of Landsat 1-5, 60 m per pixel. The Search line
finds the same action by the words MSS, early images, old images. Near
Perm there are 778 such scenes. Layers for the QGIS project - false
colours, all four MSS bands in one file, NDVI and NDWI from top of
atmosphere reflectance. Slanted stripes of failed lines on MSS images
are replaced with neighbouring pixels, clouds and snow stay as they
are. MSS images were added after a discussion with Nadezhda
(github.com/nadiopt-cell), the author of QGIS plugins for loading
satellite images.
0.71.0 Share View… in the Scene icon menu writes an HTML page
with the globe. It opens in a browser without QGIS and shows the
camera of the view, terrain, the OpenStreetMap base, the selected
placemarks and a tour. The assistant turns on catalogue layers and
maps, opens windows and tools, demos and bodies and changes the
opacity of a shown layer.
0.70.0 The Aurora map in the Weather group of the catalogue
shows the probability of a visible aurora by the NOAA forecast for
the next half hour to an hour and a half. Slope and contours are
drawn only on the near terrain, no farther than three distances from
the camera to the look-at point. A view tilted to the horizon no
longer stalls on computing hundreds of far tiles.
0.69.2 A project layer in the Layers list no longer shows a relief
or grid role, the row holds the layer name and type.
0.69.1 The manual figures are taken again with the new Layers
section. The manual has new pictures of the Add data catalogue and of
the currents over the Atlantic. The description of the currents in the
catalogue tells about white streaks over the speed colouring. In the
English interface the precipitation map is called Precipitation, not
Sediments.
0.69.0 The Layers section shows in one list everything on the
globe. A row takes one line, the ⋯ menu on the right changes the
opacity, saves what is in view to the QGIS project and removes the
layer. Project layers are the QGIS project group of the same list.
Base map and Relief stand at the top of the list. A click on them
opens the choice of the base map, land heights (Terrarium, Copernicus
DEM 30 m, GEDTM30) and sea depths. The Add data button puts the
catalogue of maps and layers in place of the list - categories on the
left, a check box and a source in a row, the description of the chosen
one under the list. The globe stays visible. The catalogue has a new
Energy category - power plants, power lines, pipelines and submarine
cables. Currents are white streaks over a speed colouring. From afar
the Gulf Stream and other strong currents stand out, the streaks do
not loop through the eddies. A double click on an empty project layer
in QGIS 3.36 no longer gives an error in every frame.
0.68.1 The first hint of getting to know the plugin says that
the Earth turns after the cursor while the left button is pressed.
Sets for a task and the Set row of the Layers section are removed.
0.68.0 The Search field also finds features of the plugin -
layers, maps, windows, tools, demos and bodies. Type “currents”,
“ruler” or “images” and choose a suggestion. Ctrl+K from anywhere in
the window puts the cursor into the field. Sets for a task - the Set
row of the Layers section. Geologist, Miner, Hydrologist, Historian,
Developer and Clean globe turn on their layers in one choice. Getting
to know the plugin - five hints over the window on the first opening.
It is repeated from the Search field. The properties of a placemark,
folder, image, bathymetry and extrusion open in the panel to the right
of the view instead of separate windows. The globe stays usable under
them. Contours on Mars, the Moon and other bodies are thin and smooth
up close, lines below zero on bodies without a sea have the land
colour. A weather map after a historical map on the time slider no
longer gives a Python error.
0.67.1 Old maps are called historical maps throughout the plugin
and the manual. Rumsey maps - the Whole catalogue check box finds a
map by year or title among all 56 thousand maps. Frames of the listed
maps are shown on the globe, the Show on the globe button flies to the
chosen one. Ocean currents follow the time slider - its handle sets
the day from February 2017 on. Wind and current streaks are thicker
and easier to see. The To QGIS project… item is available for
colourings too. Weather and currents go as a raster of values with a
legend, NASA themes, clouds and temperature as an image of the same
date. A layer of the On the globe section stays as a row after its
check box is cleared and comes back with the same check box. The
Remove from the globe item removes the row. Legends of power plants,
power lines and currents stand in the common legend panel at the
bottom left and do not cover the icon bar. Imagery of bodies,
palaeogeography and the relief of Mars and the Moon load from a backup
server when the main one does not answer.
0.67.0 Historical maps of the David Rumsey collection - the Rumsey
historical maps here… item of the globe menu lists the maps at the
view by year. The chosen map is built, georeferenced and put into the
project with its year, then the time slider and the swipe of two years
work. The collection images are for non-commercial use only. Wind
streaks - white running trails over the Wind map. Ocean currents - the
Currents row of the Planet of water gallery group, streaks coloured by
speed from NOAA data. The On the globe section of Layers - layers that
are on, with an opacity slider and a menu. The To QGIS project… item
saves what is in view as a GeoPackage layer. Submarine cables -
communication lines and power cables from OpenStreetMap, a row of the
Map group. OpenStreetMap power lines, cables and pipelines - a row of
the Map group, the line colour is the voltage or the substance. Power
plants of the world - about 35 thousand plants of the WRI database,
the colour is the fuel, the size is the capacity. Mining areas -
outlines of open pits and dumps of the world, OpenStreetMap mines and
quarries at the view. Mineral deposits - world mines and plants added,
a click on a point opens the details without the identify mode, major
deposits stand out more. Contours moved to the Map group of the Layers
section. OpenStreetMap, weather and slab data loading switches to a
backup server by itself when the main one does not answer.
0.66.1 The elevation profile across an own water body shows the
water above the bed and a dashed line of the water body level with a
label.
0.66.0 Historical maps with a year - a raster or XYZ tiles of the
project
(the Map year… item of the layer menu) and a ground image (the Time
field). Maps of one group replace each other on the time slider, the
last map not later than the moment is shown, the ◂ ▸ steps go by the
map years, the ⇆ button opens the swipe of two years. The Moscow, old
maps demo has maps of 1813, 1860, 1900, 1917 and 1935 from Wikimedia
Commons. Bathymetry from echo sounder soundings - the Bathymetry from
soundings… item of the point layer menu builds a raster from the
depths and puts it into the globe terrain as the water body bed with
water above it. Cut and fill - the Cut and fill… item of the raster
menu compares a new terrain survey with an earlier one, shows the cut
and fill volumes and areas and puts a difference raster into the
project. QGIS 3.36 no longer hangs on XYZ tile layers of the project.
The requests of the plugin go their own way and do not hold up the
requests of QGIS.
0.65.0 The Mineral deposits row of the Maps and layers gallery
shows about 300 thousand mineral deposits, mines and occurrences of
USGS and 3 thousand major deposits of the world. The colour is the
commodity group, a click shows the name, commodities, type and a link
to the USGS record. Own bathymetry - the Water body bathymetry… item
of the raster menu puts a raster of depths or bed elevations into the
globe terrain, semi-transparent water is drawn above it at the water
body level. The Lake Brienz, own bathymetry demo is the lake bed from
swisstopo data, down to 256 m deep. Gaps in the Landsat surface
temperature, over most of Russia half of the area or more, are filled
by the same USGS formula with the emissivity from NDVI. The
Temperature gaps by formula check box is on by default. The own
terrain demos open without the Earth cutaway, themes and other layers
left switched on.
0.64.0 The globe opens on Linux. In 0.63.0 and earlier it crashed
at start on AltLinux with QGIS 4.2 with the error "Buffer size too
small". Terrain to choose in the Data sources window - height tiles,
Copernicus DEM 30 m or GEDTM30 without forest and buildings. Up close
the land heights come from the 30 m model, at Mount Narodnaya 1888 m
instead of 1816 m. The images window finds MODIS products since 2000 -
the daytime and nighttime surface temperature per day and over 8 days,
NDVI and EVI over 16 days, snow per day and over 8 days and burned
areas by month. The Landsat temperature tooltip explains that this is
the surface temperature of the USGS Level-2 product, not brightness
temperature.
0.63.0 The images window also finds Landsat 4-9
images since 1982, 30 m per pixel, with the thermal band and
land surface temperature in °C. The window gets the access
key to the files itself, no account is needed. The area around
a point equals the width of the visible part of the globe when
the window opens, from 1 to 100 km. Loading the same scene
again while its layers are open no longer stops with a file
access error, new files get a number in the name. Loading
images could hang QGIS, it no longer does. A slider under
My Places changes the opacity of the selected places and
folders. Reading Pythagoras projects is removed from the
plugin. The hang watcher runs as a separate process and
writes its analysis to the log even when QGIS does not
respond at all.
0.62.3 When QGIS does not respond for more than 30 s,
the work log writes a process dump and analyses it at once,
the log shows in which QGIS and Qt functions every thread
stands and what it waits for. A log with this analysis helps
to find the cause of a hang.
0.62.2 The Pythagoras project window leads through four
numbered steps. After To QGIS project the window closes, the
QGIS map and an open globe show the area, the new layers are
checked on the globe, and the result stays in the QGIS message
bar. Layers are named by the Pythagoras layer and the kind,
for example Waste dump - areas.
0.62.1 Removing layers from the project while the globe
is open, for example loading a Pythagoras project again, could
crash QGIS in the Python error window. The crash is fixed.
0.62.0 A Pythagoras project (.pyt) opens in QGIS as
GeoPackage layers, a group of point, line, area and text layers
for every Pythagoras layer, with arcs. The window opens from
Layer - Add Layer, from an icon above the globe Project layers
and by dropping a .pyt file on QGIS. The Open example button
shows an invented quarry project. A click on a layer check box
in the globe Project layers could crash QGIS, it no longer
does. The log records all Python errors in QGIS, memory and
Windows objects, and a QGIS crash at the next start with the
Python stacks of the crash.
0.61.0 The Sentinel-2 images window searches scenes over
an area, a square around a point or a My Places placemark, for
a date range, with cloud cover over the area itself. Band
combinations and the NDVI, NDWI, NDMI, NBR and NDSI indices go
to the QGIS project as styled layers, clipped to GeoTIFF with
clouds optionally empty or linked to the whole scene. The
previous Sentinel-2 window crashed QGIS 4.2.1 while reading
its catalogue, the new window does not read it.
0.60.0 Closing the properties window of a ground image
fitted by a box no longer brings a Python error window while
moving the globe. Unchecking a radio folder, for example the
MODIS images of the Aral Sea demo, hides all its places, before
it switched to the next image. The Work log button of the About
window opens the plugin log, if QGIS does not respond for more
than 10 s the log records where it stopped.
0.59.0 Depth contours in the open sea stay visible close
up, before they vanished or broke, for example east of Japan.
Contours no longer break at tile borders.
0.58.0 Contours run smoothly without steps and square
loops, close up they are built from smoothed survey heights,
the interval is never finer than 5 m. Contours are yellow on
satellite imagery and brown on a map. The contour scale in the
view corner shows the interval, its To the QGIS project link
exports the contours, its cross switches the layer off.
0.57.0 Thicker contours are labelled with their height in
a gap of the line, the top of the digits faces uphill. View
contours and grid contours go to the QGIS project as a
GeoPackage layer. A project vector layer is extruded by a
numeric field, polygons as prisms, points as columns, lines
as walls. The path of a recorded fly-around is edited in its
Properties window. KML network links load a document from the
web or disk into a My Places folder and refresh it, an example
lies in examples/network_link. A flat lake at a contour height
is no longer filled.
0.56.0 The Contours layer of the Maps and layers gallery
draws lines of equal height on the terrain, as on a
topographic map. The interval changes with the zoom, every
fifth contour is thicker, below sea level the lines are blue.
The layer exists on the Earth, Mars and the Moon. Grids under
the ground show elevation contours, every fifth one thicker.
0.55.0 The Sentinel-2 image here… item of the globe
menu lists Sentinel-2 acquisition days over the point with
cloud cover and preview. The chosen scene, 10 m in natural
colours, becomes a QGIS project layer shown on the globe.
QGIS 4 is needed. The Windy custom item example opens the
forecast in degrees Celsius and metres per second. The Maps
and layers gallery opens from its Layers row, the icon bar
has no icon for it.
0.54.0 The route of the globe menu is built at any
distance: Perm - Sochi, 2664 km, arrives within a second. The
open OSRM service builds it from OpenStreetMap data, without
network the plugin builds it over vector base roads up to
50 km. Routes by bike. A route is found when a point stands at
an island of roads without an exit. The icon bar has no
Subsurface mode icon, Refresh shows only without automatic
update, screen tour recording is named Record a flight.
0.53.0 A raster of absolute elevations, such as a bed
top grid, lies under the ground as a surface. The Surface by
elevations item of the raster menu turns it on. A block with
walls along the data edge and a floor is built under the
grids, _top and _bottom grids make a bed slab with end walls.
The Ground above grids slider makes the ground transparent.
Basemaps of the Base group are chosen with a radio button.
0.52.0 Weather maps show their values over the colours -
temperature, precipitation, wind and clouds on an even grid.
A placemark or a folder can hide beyond a distance, the Hide
beyond field of the properties window. Region from Google
Earth KML works the same way and is saved to KML. The
Satellites tab of the Maps and layers gallery chooses the
satellite groups with orbit previews.
0.51.0 The globe menu has an Open in browser submenu with
custom items - addresses with the point under the cursor, for
example a weather forecast on windy.com. The Custom items
window sets them. The Weather here item of the globe menu is
removed.
0.50.0 The time slider and the tour bar are one panel at
the top of the view, the tour buttons form a second row under
the slider. The day step and comparison swipe buttons are blue
icons. The swipe line no longer crosses the view panels.
0.49.0 A comparison swipe shows a NASA theme for two
days side by side, by default a year apart. The Maps and
layers icon stays pressed while a gallery map is on the globe,
the cross on the map scale removes the map. Closing the
gallery while previews load no longer crashes QGIS. The
manual describes how to make a video step by step.
0.48.0 The gallery is called Maps and layers. Next to the
NASA maps it holds the sky, inside the Earth and terrain
analysis layers - stars, clouds, sun, satellites,
earthquakes, plate boundaries, Earth cutaway, paleogeography,
slope and aspect, each with a preview. The Layers section
keeps the base map, terrain, the gallery row and the vector
map. The Satellite groups button chooses satellite groups.
0.47.0 NASA maps, weather forecast, fires and surface
temperature are gathered in the NASA maps and weather gallery
with a preview of each map, group buttons and search. The
Layers section is split into Base map, Map, Sky and light,
Inside the Earth and Terrain analysis. The New placemark
window draws a circle. A NASA theme opens on the latest
processed day, and snow mass no longer covers snowless land.
0.46.0 The Map sheet designation submenu of the globe
menu shows map sheet numbers at the point - the International
Map of the World 1:1,000,000, the Russian designation at
1:1,000,000, 1:500,000 and 1:200,000, the NATO JOG 1:250,000
sheet and the MGRS 100 km square. A click copies the number.
0.45.0 The Weather group of the Layers section shows air
temperature, precipitation, wind and clouds of the NOAA GFS
model at the moment of the time slider, a forecast up to 16
days ahead and the model analysis behind. The Weather here
item of the globe menu opens the MET Norway forecast at the
point, hourly for two days and daily for 10 days.
0.44.0 A tour records to an MP4 video at the window size
right away, Windows itself encodes it. PNG frame recording gets
a size choice up to 3840 x 2160. The globe menu shows the point
coordinates first, a click copies them. Its items are now Fly
here, Orbit around, Directions from here and to here, What's
here? with the place address, Measure distance, Copy link to
place with an OpenStreetMap link, and Paste.
0.43.0 Directions from here and Directions to here in the
globe menu build a route by OpenStreetMap roads by car or on
foot. The path goes into My Places with the length and travel
time, the line under the search builds it the other way. The
points lie up to 50 km apart. The globe menu also has Orbit
around, Get info and Paste from clipboard. The Planet of Water
group has the Snow over 8 days and Snow mass themes with fewer
gaps under clouds and in the polar night than daily snow.
0.42.1 A view straight down at a pole from thousands of
kilometres no longer brings a Python error window. It also
happened with the camera following a polar satellite.
0.42.0 The Satellites row of the Layers section shows
artificial satellites of the Earth as dots at their height.
Stations, navigation, weather, geostationary, Starlink and
other groups are offered. CelesTrak gives the orbital elements,
the SGP4 model places them for the moment of the time slider
or the clock. A click shows the number, height and speed of a
satellite. The selected satellite shows its orbit loop and
ground track, and the camera can follow it. The time slider
runs at clock speeds from x1 to x86400, and the Now button
sets the computer clock. With the Sun, satellites or the sky
the slider opens without timed placemarks and plays on past
its edge.
0.41.0 A linked image overlay is read again after the
interval of the new Refresh field while it is shown, a web
address past the cache. The globe keeps a fresh image or map
that a server updates by itself. KML refreshMode onInterval and
refreshInterval are read and written.
0.40.0 Tracks and project layers with QGIS time follow the
time slider of the globe. A track grows up to the right handle,
a layer with time shows only its objects within the slider range,
on the picture and in the labels. The QGIS Temporal Controller no
longer acts on the globe. A scene keeps the slider range.
0.39.0 The Data sources… button of the View properties window
opens a window with all globe sources, their terms of use and an
availability check. It sets own terrain (Terrarium or Mapbox
Terrain-RGB) and an own vector base (OpenMapTiles TileJSON), adds,
edits and removes base maps.
0.38.0 The Fires row of the Planet of Fire group shows fire
spots over the last 24 hours from the NASA FIRMS feed. Fires are
chosen in the same list as the NASA themes, either the fires or one
theme is on. The colour and size of a dot show the radiative power,
the spots stand on the time slider, a click in the Identify mode
shows the power and the image time. A layer legend shows also when
it is the first one on the legend panel.
0.37.0 With the Sun row city lights shine on the night side
of the Earth from the NASA Black Marble image. In the twilight they
fade together with the night, under clouds they are weaker.
0.36.0 A height raster of the QGIS project becomes the globe
terrain within its extent, the Globe terrain item of the raster menu
in the Project layers section. At the edge of the extent the heights
change smoothly to the common terrain, within the extent the terrain
is more detailed, down to the raster pixel. The Quarry, own terrain
demo is a synthetic 1 m survey of a quarry with benches and a waste
dump near Berezniki. The right-click menu on the globe and dragging
of ruler points, new placemark vertices, Earth cutaway corners and
ground overlay corners work again, in 0.34.0 and 0.35.0 they broke
off with an error. A click on the base map checkbox no longer opens
a Python error window.
0.35.0 A ground overlay, or all ground overlays of a folder,
goes into the QGIS project as GeoTIFF raster layers by the corners
of the image, in the PlanetX - images group. The Aral Sea demo
shows the three kinds of overlays by links to web addresses. These
are MODIS images of 2000, 2014 and 2023 as radio buttons, a photo
of the ships at Moynaq and a basin map on the screen. QGIS 3.36 no
longer crashes on exit when My Places hold ground overlays.
0.34.0The Add submenu of a My Places folder adds a ground
overlay, a photo and a screen overlay. A ground overlay is placed
by a box with rotation or by four corners, with handles to move,
rotate and stretch it, as in Google Earth. The image is kept in
the places file or as a link to a file or web address. Google
Earth overlays open from KML and KMZ and save back with images.
The time slider is one time of the view: a NASA theme takes the
day of the right handle, placemarks and earthquakes the range.
Without events the slider has one handle and steps over the theme
series. The legends stand as one panel. The assistant button left
the Search field, a topic typed there becomes placemarks, the
assistant settings are in the View properties window.
0.33.0 Paleogeography shows land relief and sea depths of
the past after the PALEOMAP PaleoDEM maps, up to 540 million years
ago. Changing the age and playing ages no longer stall the view.
The Planet of Fire, Planet of Water, Gases and Land and Life groups
of the Layers section show 21 NASA GIBS themes - smoke, carbon
monoxide, precipitation, snow, sea ice, gases, vegetation, night
lights and others. The day of a theme is set by its own slider,
a legend stands in the corner of the view.
0.32.0 The Subsurface mode icon shows drill holes along
their survey, bed roofs, section walls with images, tunnels and
a cut block under the surface, with a transparent surface and
a camera underground. The data are ordinary project layers,
checked layers go under the globe in 3D and take their style
and labels from QGIS. A polygon of My Places cuts the model,
a path puts a section wall, the Model section window shows the
beds along a path. The Demo icon opens Permian deposits with
a tour and Vegas Loop tunnels. The Manual link of the About
window opens the PDF in the system viewer.
0.31.0 A topic in the Search line for which no places are
found, for example Voyages of Columbus, turns into placemarks at
once. Placemarks that the assistant proposes in a conversation
show below the Search line with the Write to My Places link.
While the Properties window of a placemark, path or polygon is
open, its vertices can be dragged on the globe, OK writes the
shape too. The Edit shape and Rename items left the menus, the
name and the shape are changed in the Properties window.
0.30.0 Paleogeography shows continents without holes or
water strips inside, with coasts four times finer, about 5 km at
the equator. An age opens in a fraction of a second instead of
6-25 s. Relief is off in this mode, and the loading icon shows
while a map loads.
0.29.0 The Search line suggests your places and earlier
queries while you type, and stars and constellations in the sky.
Enter on the exact name of your place flies to it without a
network request. Assistant places are richer: up to 100 places,
routes along the real path, territories as polygons and times
wherever they are known. Route stages grow on the time slider.
The answer arrives as a stream with a count of places and a Stop
link that keeps the places already complete. After a search by
name, the Make places on "topic" link turns a topic into
places. KML tracks gx:Track open as lines with a time span.
Assistant places are read when the model writes spaces after
commas, time inside a line, a polygon without an outer boundary
or HTML in a description. Years before the common era are written
correctly, and years longer than four digits are read.
0.28.0 The Plate boundaries row shows the lithospheric
plate boundaries after the PB2002 model: red where plates move
apart, green along transform faults, blue where they converge.
Plate names show as labels. The Features window shows the
boundary type, the plate pair and the speed in mm/yr.
0.27.2 The plugin works as in 0.27.1. Stress checks of
the base map loading are added for the developers.
0.27.1 The assistant is one button by the Search field.
A click makes places from a description, the arrow opens the
conversation and the settings. The assistant icon is no longer
on the icon bar. Clear My Places… removes all placemarks and
folders after a confirmation.
0.27.0 A button by the Search field makes places from a
description, for example "the voyage of Columbus". The model
answers with one KML document, the places appear in My Places
and on the globe at once and the camera flies to them. Events
carry their dates, the time slider opens on them. The Cancel
link below the field removes the places. The Demo icon opens
the Japan Trench with earthquakes and an Earth cutaway across
the subduction zone. A scene keeps the cutaway sector.
0.26.0 The Search field understands requests in words, for
example "show a section across the Japan Trench". The request
goes to the assistant, the answer appears below the field. Place
names and coordinates are found as before. The assistant works
with Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, OpenRouter and an own service of the
OpenAI Chat format, for example Ollama on this computer.
OpenRouter with free models is chosen by default, its key is
free. Ollama works without a key and without the internet. The
Assistant window shows the conversation, the service, model and
key are in the Assistant settings window. The key is kept in the
QGIS profile settings without the master password by default.
0.25.1 The Assistant icon opens a conversation with the
Claude or Grok AI model. On a request in words the model flies,
switches Layers rows, sets the Earth cutaway and sections and
answers about points and earthquakes. It proposes placemarks
as KML, they are written after confirmation. An API key of
your own is needed, it is kept in the QGIS password manager.
The Features window also shows My Places placemarks,
earthquake foci, the Moho, crust and slab under the point.
The Paleogeography row shows the coastlines of the past up to
a billion years ago. The globe window always opens on today's
Earth.
0.25.0 The Earthquakes row of the Layers panel shows
the earthquakes of the last 30 days from the USGS feed at their
depth, coloured by depth and sized by magnitude. The Earth
section row takes a sector out of the Earth and shows the crust,
mantle, core and subducting slabs on its faces, its corners are
dragged with the mouse. Section down in the menu of a path draws
a section of the Earth along the path in a window and as a wall
on the globe.
Terrain shows sea and ocean depths under translucent water.
Vertices in the New placemark window are dragged with the mouse,
the circle in the middle of a segment adds a vertex, a click on
the first point closes the shape. A right click on the globe
opens a menu, Edit shape there edits a saved placemark, path or
polygon. The globe updates automatically by default.
0.24.1 The Demo icon has a Jezero crater scene on Mars
with the Perseverance landing site, an elevation profile across
the crater, a point for the viewshed, a flight around and the
slope colouring. Depressions of Mars and the Moon deeper than
3 km, such as Isidis and Hellas, are no longer covered by a
blurred patch of imagery.
0.24.0 Terrain analysis. Slope and Aspect rows of the
Layers panel colour the Earth, Mars and the Moon by terrain
slope classes or by the compass direction slopes face. Viewshed
from here in the menu of a point placemark colours the places
seen from it green and the hidden ones red, with observer and
target heights. Insolation shows the hours of direct sunlight
per day for chosen dates, with mountain shadows. The point of the
elevation profile no longer jumps to earlier places of the same
height.
0.23.0 Folders of My Places have a properties window:
name, description, view, allow expanding and show contents as
option buttons, with radio buttons in the list. A double click
or Fly to goes to the folder view or frames its places. The
folder menu has Add, Cut, Snapshot folder view and Sort A-Z,
folder properties are kept in KML. The Base map group of the Layers
panel switches
imagery at once. Add tile source opens a window that takes a tile
address in any form, shows a world mosaic, finds the most detailed
level and saves the source as a QGIS XYZ Tiles connection. The
tour bar and the time slider have the same blue buttons, the time
slider plays in a loop.
0.21.0 Sixteen more bodies in the Body menu: Mercury,
Venus, Jupiter, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Mimas, Enceladus,
Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Iapetus, Ceres and Vesta, with global
NASA and USGS imagery. The Earth heads the menu, other bodies sit
in short submenus. Jupiter fits the view as a whole.
0.20.0 Mars and the Moon have terrain: mountains,
craters and plains from NASA MOLA and LOLA heights, with the same
vertical scale as on the Earth. The loop button on the tour bar
repeats the tour from the first stop. Closing the globe window
on Mars or the Moon no longer ends with an error.
0.19.0 The Body icon of the icon bar puts Mars or the
Moon in place of the Earth, with their own imagery, and a place
keeps its body. The Sky item shows the starry sky from the centre
of the celestial sphere: the Milky Way, stars, constellation
lines and names, the Sun, the Moon and the planets at the time
set by the time slider or the computer clock. Places, tours and
tour recording work in the sky. The Demo icon with an academic
cap opens prepared scenes: Perm and Boca Chica, landing sites on
Mars and the Moon, constellations and bright objects in the
sky.
0.18.0 Sun light with the night side of the Earth by
the time slider or the clock. 3D path and 3D polygon of the
ruler over roofs and walls of 3D buildings, kept in My Places
and KML.
0.17.3 The placemark time slider opens with a button on
the icon bar or by itself on a flight to a dated view, a
closed slider shows all placemarks.
0.17.2 The description, manual and changelog describe
the plugin in its own words.
0.17.1 The navigation controls in the corner of the
view are always shown, as a faint outline away from the
cursor and in full near it. Tooltips describe the plugin in
its own words.
0.17.0 Ruler with ground length, heading and dragging
of points. Elevation profile of lines and paths. Coordinates
in degrees, DMS, UTM or MGRS, search understands all four.
Placemark icons, placemark time with a time slider,
recording a tour from the screen, all kept in
KML. The Perm demo in the Scene menu.
0.16.0 3D buildings in the Layers panel.
OpenStreetMap buildings rise as blocks when the camera
is closer than 6 km to the ground, with the height from
OpenStreetMap or from the number of floors. They are off by
default. A scene remembers the rows of the Layers panel.
0.15.0 Any place can have a view of its own:
look point, range, heading and tilt. Snapshot view in the
place menu and the Place view section of the properties set it,
fly-to and tours follow it, KML keeps it as LookAt. A slider on
the tour bar shows how much of the tour has passed and winds it.
The manual explains how to make an MP4 video from recorded frames.
0.14.0 A spinning icon to the right of the icon bar shows
that loading goes on, it turns orange when loading stalls.
0.13.0 Labels of vector project layers on the globe, like
city names: level at any turn and tilt, without overlaps, with
the text, colour and size of the layer labels in QGIS.
0.12.0 Land and sea temperature from NASA data in the
Layers panel, off by default. A scale in degrees Celsius is shown
in the bottom left corner of the view. The coordinate grid with
labels no longer breaks drawing with an error, the fault came in
0.10.0.
0.11.0 The Milky Way behind the Earth,
from the NASA sky map. The sky image is downloaded once when the
stars are first shown. Files of GitHub releases and other
redirected tiles now load in QGIS 3.
0.10.0 A coordinate grid: the step follows
the camera height, lines are labelled, the equator, tropics and
polar circles are yellow. Stars around the Earth at their places in
the sky. Clouds from NASA imagery of the last complete day, in the
Layers panel. Translucent own lines and walls no longer turn dark.
0.9.0 Copy and paste in My Places: places
and folders go to the clipboard as KML text, which can be edited in
a text editor and pasted back. The place properties window no longer
blocks the globe, changes show at once and a Ground - Space slider
sets the height. A PDF manual with pictures in Russian and English
ships with the plugin and opens from About.
0.8.0 On-screen navigation controls: the
compass ring with N, the look and move sticks and the height slider
with plus and minus appear in the top right corner of the view. A
check box in the view properties keeps them on screen. The view
properties open from the icon bar. The About window describes the
features, controls and requirements.
0.7.0 Mouse and keys: double click zooms to
a point, right drag zooms, Ctrl looks around, arrows, PageUp,
PageDown, N, U, R and Space. The left panel has collapsible
sections Places, Project layers and Layers. Several places are
selected with Ctrl and Shift, deleted with Del, shown, hidden and
dragged together. A double click on a project layer flies to it.
A manual in Russian and English opens from About.
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: name, description, colors,
height above ground and extending to the ground, a path becomes a
wall and a polygon a block. KML 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: 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,
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: 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, 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 with
borders, place and water names, roads and road numbers, railways,
airports, rivers, lakes, peaks and protected areas. Labels
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.

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