{"name": "PlanetX", "package_name": "planetx", "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", "changelog": "0.77.0 The images window gives a whole scene - the Whole scene,\nsource files item of the method list at the bottom of the window. All\nbands, the cloud mask and the metadata are downloaded as they are to a\nscene folder, a layer set of all bands goes to the project. The method\nexists for Sentinel-2, Landsat, MSS, ASTER and MODIS, clipping to the\narea stays the default. If the area lies beyond the edge of the scene\nimage, the window no longer adds empty layers and says that the bands\nhold no data. This happened with ASTER from NASA, whose catalogue\nknows only the scene frame.\n0.76.0 The ASTER images here\u2026 item of the globe menu opens the\nimages window right on ASTER. The Search line finds the same action by\nthe words ASTER, minerals, kaolinite. The manual tells step by step\nhow to get a free NASA Earthdata key and enter it in the images\nwindow.\n0.75.0 ASTER images after 2006 from the NASA archive - the ASTER\nsince 2007 line of the images window. Search and preview go without\nsign-in, the files by a free NASA Earthdata key, the window asks for\nit once. After 2008 ASTER has only the visible, near infrared and\nthermal bands.\n0.74.0 ASTER images of 2000-2006 in the images window - 14 bands,\nvisible and near infrared at 15 m, shortwave infrared at 30 m, thermal\nat 90 m, without sign-in or key. ASTER mineral indices for ore\nexploration - kaolinite and alunite, sericite and muscovite,\ncarbonates, iron oxides, quartz. The layers are coloured over the\narea, warm colours mean more of the mineral.\n0.73.0 The All scene bands line of the images window puts into the\nQGIS project one file with all bands of the image in the order of\ntheir numbers. Sentinel-2 gives 12 bands at 10 m, Landsat 8-9 gives 8,\nLandsat 4-7 gives 7, the thermal band is in kelvins. The bands are\nnamed, the layer shows natural colours, another combination is chosen\nin the layer properties.\n0.72.0 Early Landsat images of 1972-1993. The Early Landsat images\n1972-1993 here\u2026 item of the globe menu opens the images window on the\nMSS scanner images of Landsat 1-5, 60 m per pixel. The Search line\nfinds the same action by the words MSS, early images, old images. Near\nPerm there are 778 such scenes. Layers for the QGIS project - false\ncolours, all four MSS bands in one file, NDVI and NDWI from top of\natmosphere reflectance. Slanted stripes of failed lines on MSS images\nare replaced with neighbouring pixels, clouds and snow stay as they\nare. MSS images were added after a discussion with Nadezhda\n(github.com/nadiopt-cell), the author of QGIS plugins for loading\nsatellite images.\n0.71.0 Share View\u2026 in the Scene icon menu writes an HTML page\nwith the globe. It opens in a browser without QGIS and shows the\ncamera of the view, terrain, the OpenStreetMap base, the selected\nplacemarks and a tour. The assistant turns on catalogue layers and\nmaps, opens windows and tools, demos and bodies and changes the\nopacity of a shown layer.\n0.70.0 The Aurora map in the Weather group of the catalogue\nshows the probability of a visible aurora by the NOAA forecast for\nthe next half hour to an hour and a half. Slope and contours are\ndrawn only on the near terrain, no farther than three distances from\nthe camera to the look-at point. A view tilted to the horizon no\nlonger stalls on computing hundreds of far tiles.\n0.69.2 A project layer in the Layers list no longer shows a relief\nor grid role, the row holds the layer name and type.\n0.69.1 The manual figures are taken again with the new Layers\nsection. The manual has new pictures of the Add data catalogue and of\nthe currents over the Atlantic. The description of the currents in the\ncatalogue tells about white streaks over the speed colouring. In the\nEnglish interface the precipitation map is called Precipitation, not\nSediments.\n0.69.0 The Layers section shows in one list everything on the\nglobe. A row takes one line, the \u22ef menu on the right changes the\nopacity, saves what is in view to the QGIS project and removes the\nlayer. Project layers are the QGIS project group of the same list.\nBase map and Relief stand at the top of the list. A click on them\nopens the choice of the base map, land heights (Terrarium, Copernicus\nDEM 30 m, GEDTM30) and sea depths. The Add data button puts the\ncatalogue of maps and layers in place of the list - categories on the\nleft, a check box and a source in a row, the description of the chosen\none under the list. The globe stays visible. The catalogue has a new\nEnergy category - power plants, power lines, pipelines and submarine\ncables. Currents are white streaks over a speed colouring. From afar\nthe Gulf Stream and other strong currents stand out, the streaks do\nnot loop through the eddies. A double click on an empty project layer\nin QGIS 3.36 no longer gives an error in every frame.\n0.68.1 The first hint of getting to know the plugin says that\nthe Earth turns after the cursor while the left button is pressed.\nSets for a task and the Set row of the Layers section are removed.\n0.68.0 The Search field also finds features of the plugin -\nlayers, maps, windows, tools, demos and bodies. Type \u201ccurrents\u201d,\n\u201cruler\u201d or \u201cimages\u201d and choose a suggestion. Ctrl+K from anywhere in\nthe window puts the cursor into the field. Sets for a task - the Set\nrow of the Layers section. Geologist, Miner, Hydrologist, Historian,\nDeveloper and Clean globe turn on their layers in one choice. Getting\nto know the plugin - five hints over the window on the first opening.\nIt is repeated from the Search field. The properties of a placemark,\nfolder, image, bathymetry and extrusion open in the panel to the right\nof the view instead of separate windows. The globe stays usable under\nthem. Contours on Mars, the Moon and other bodies are thin and smooth\nup close, lines below zero on bodies without a sea have the land\ncolour. A weather map after a historical map on the time slider no\nlonger gives a Python error.\n0.67.1 Old maps are called historical maps throughout the plugin\nand the manual. Rumsey maps - the Whole catalogue check box finds a\nmap by year or title among all 56 thousand maps. Frames of the listed\nmaps are shown on the globe, the Show on the globe button flies to the\nchosen one. Ocean currents follow the time slider - its handle sets\nthe day from February 2017 on. Wind and current streaks are thicker\nand easier to see. The To QGIS project\u2026 item is available for\ncolourings too. Weather and currents go as a raster of values with a\nlegend, NASA themes, clouds and temperature as an image of the same\ndate. A layer of the On the globe section stays as a row after its\ncheck box is cleared and comes back with the same check box. The\nRemove from the globe item removes the row. Legends of power plants,\npower lines and currents stand in the common legend panel at the\nbottom left and do not cover the icon bar. Imagery of bodies,\npalaeogeography and the relief of Mars and the Moon load from a backup\nserver when the main one does not answer.\n0.67.0 Historical maps of the David Rumsey collection - the Rumsey\nhistorical maps here\u2026 item of the globe menu lists the maps at the\nview by year. The chosen map is built, georeferenced and put into the\nproject with its year, then the time slider and the swipe of two years\nwork. The collection images are for non-commercial use only. Wind\nstreaks - white running trails over the Wind map. Ocean currents - the\nCurrents row of the Planet of water gallery group, streaks coloured by\nspeed from NOAA data. The On the globe section of Layers - layers that\nare on, with an opacity slider and a menu. The To QGIS project\u2026 item\nsaves what is in view as a GeoPackage layer. Submarine cables -\ncommunication lines and power cables from OpenStreetMap, a row of the\nMap group. OpenStreetMap power lines, cables and pipelines - a row of\nthe Map group, the line colour is the voltage or the substance. Power\nplants of the world - about 35 thousand plants of the WRI database,\nthe colour is the fuel, the size is the capacity. Mining areas -\noutlines of open pits and dumps of the world, OpenStreetMap mines and\nquarries at the view. Mineral deposits - world mines and plants added,\na click on a point opens the details without the identify mode, major\ndeposits stand out more. Contours moved to the Map group of the Layers\nsection. OpenStreetMap, weather and slab data loading switches to a\nbackup server by itself when the main one does not answer.\n0.66.1 The elevation profile across an own water body shows the\nwater above the bed and a dashed line of the water body level with a\nlabel.\n0.66.0 Historical maps with a year - a raster or XYZ tiles of the project\n(the Map year\u2026 item of the layer menu) and a ground image (the Time\nfield). Maps of one group replace each other on the time slider, the\nlast map not later than the moment is shown, the \u25c2 \u25b8 steps go by the\nmap years, the \u21c6 button opens the swipe of two years. The Moscow, old\nmaps demo has maps of 1813, 1860, 1900, 1917 and 1935 from Wikimedia\nCommons. Bathymetry from echo sounder soundings - the Bathymetry from\nsoundings\u2026 item of the point layer menu builds a raster from the\ndepths and puts it into the globe terrain as the water body bed with\nwater above it. Cut and fill - the Cut and fill\u2026 item of the raster\nmenu compares a new terrain survey with an earlier one, shows the cut\nand fill volumes and areas and puts a difference raster into the\nproject. QGIS 3.36 no longer hangs on XYZ tile layers of the project.\nThe requests of the plugin go their own way and do not hold up the\nrequests of QGIS.\n0.65.0 The Mineral deposits row of the Maps and layers gallery\nshows about 300 thousand mineral deposits, mines and occurrences of\nUSGS and 3 thousand major deposits of the world. The colour is the\ncommodity group, a click shows the name, commodities, type and a link\nto the USGS record. Own bathymetry - the Water body bathymetry\u2026 item\nof the raster menu puts a raster of depths or bed elevations into the\nglobe terrain, semi-transparent water is drawn above it at the water\nbody level. The Lake Brienz, own bathymetry demo is the lake bed from\nswisstopo data, down to 256 m deep. Gaps in the Landsat surface\ntemperature, over most of Russia half of the area or more, are filled\nby the same USGS formula with the emissivity from NDVI. The\nTemperature gaps by formula check box is on by default. The own\nterrain demos open without the Earth cutaway, themes and other layers\nleft switched on.\n0.64.0 The globe opens on Linux. In 0.63.0 and earlier it crashed\nat start on AltLinux with QGIS 4.2 with the error \"Buffer size too\nsmall\". Terrain to choose in the Data sources window - height tiles,\nCopernicus DEM 30 m or GEDTM30 without forest and buildings. Up close\nthe land heights come from the 30 m model, at Mount Narodnaya 1888 m\ninstead of 1816 m. The images window finds MODIS products since 2000 -\nthe daytime and nighttime surface temperature per day and over 8 days,\nNDVI and EVI over 16 days, snow per day and over 8 days and burned\nareas by month. The Landsat temperature tooltip explains that this is\nthe surface temperature of the USGS Level-2 product, not brightness\ntemperature.\n0.63.0 The images window also finds Landsat 4-9\nimages since 1982, 30 m per pixel, with the thermal band and\nland surface temperature in \u00b0C. The window gets the access\nkey to the files itself, no account is needed. The area around\na point equals the width of the visible part of the globe when\nthe window opens, from 1 to 100 km. Loading the same scene\nagain while its layers are open no longer stops with a file\naccess error, new files get a number in the name. Loading\nimages could hang QGIS, it no longer does. A slider under\nMy Places changes the opacity of the selected places and\nfolders. Reading Pythagoras projects is removed from the\nplugin. The hang watcher runs as a separate process and\nwrites its analysis to the log even when QGIS does not\nrespond at all.\n0.62.3 When QGIS does not respond for more than 30 s,\nthe work log writes a process dump and analyses it at once,\nthe log shows in which QGIS and Qt functions every thread\nstands and what it waits for. A log with this analysis helps\nto find the cause of a hang.\n0.62.2 The Pythagoras project window leads through four\nnumbered steps. After To QGIS project the window closes, the\nQGIS map and an open globe show the area, the new layers are\nchecked on the globe, and the result stays in the QGIS message\nbar. Layers are named by the Pythagoras layer and the kind,\nfor example Waste dump - areas.\n0.62.1 Removing layers from the project while the globe\nis open, for example loading a Pythagoras project again, could\ncrash QGIS in the Python error window. The crash is fixed.\n0.62.0 A Pythagoras project (.pyt) opens in QGIS as\nGeoPackage layers, a group of point, line, area and text layers\nfor every Pythagoras layer, with arcs. The window opens from\nLayer - Add Layer, from an icon above the globe Project layers\nand by dropping a .pyt file on QGIS. The Open example button\nshows an invented quarry project. A click on a layer check box\nin the globe Project layers could crash QGIS, it no longer\ndoes. The log records all Python errors in QGIS, memory and\nWindows objects, and a QGIS crash at the next start with the\nPython stacks of the crash.\n0.61.0 The Sentinel-2 images window searches scenes over\nan area, a square around a point or a My Places placemark, for\na date range, with cloud cover over the area itself. Band\ncombinations and the NDVI, NDWI, NDMI, NBR and NDSI indices go\nto the QGIS project as styled layers, clipped to GeoTIFF with\nclouds optionally empty or linked to the whole scene. The\nprevious Sentinel-2 window crashed QGIS 4.2.1 while reading\nits catalogue, the new window does not read it.\n0.60.0 Closing the properties window of a ground image\nfitted by a box no longer brings a Python error window while\nmoving the globe. Unchecking a radio folder, for example the\nMODIS images of the Aral Sea demo, hides all its places, before\nit switched to the next image. The Work log button of the About\nwindow opens the plugin log, if QGIS does not respond for more\nthan 10 s the log records where it stopped.\n0.59.0 Depth contours in the open sea stay visible close\nup, before they vanished or broke, for example east of Japan.\nContours no longer break at tile borders.\n0.58.0 Contours run smoothly without steps and square\nloops, close up they are built from smoothed survey heights,\nthe interval is never finer than 5 m. Contours are yellow on\nsatellite imagery and brown on a map. The contour scale in the\nview corner shows the interval, its To the QGIS project link\nexports the contours, its cross switches the layer off.\n0.57.0 Thicker contours are labelled with their height in\na gap of the line, the top of the digits faces uphill. View\ncontours and grid contours go to the QGIS project as a\nGeoPackage layer. A project vector layer is extruded by a\nnumeric field, polygons as prisms, points as columns, lines\nas walls. The path of a recorded fly-around is edited in its\nProperties window. KML network links load a document from the\nweb or disk into a My Places folder and refresh it, an example\nlies in examples/network_link. A flat lake at a contour height\nis no longer filled.\n0.56.0 The Contours layer of the Maps and layers gallery\ndraws lines of equal height on the terrain, as on a\ntopographic map. The interval changes with the zoom, every\nfifth contour is thicker, below sea level the lines are blue.\nThe layer exists on the Earth, Mars and the Moon. Grids under\nthe ground show elevation contours, every fifth one thicker.\n0.55.0 The Sentinel-2 image here\u2026 item of the globe\nmenu lists Sentinel-2 acquisition days over the point with\ncloud cover and preview. The chosen scene, 10 m in natural\ncolours, becomes a QGIS project layer shown on the globe.\nQGIS 4 is needed. The Windy custom item example opens the\nforecast in degrees Celsius and metres per second. The Maps\nand layers gallery opens from its Layers row, the icon bar\nhas no icon for it.\n0.54.0 The route of the globe menu is built at any\ndistance: Perm - Sochi, 2664 km, arrives within a second. The\nopen OSRM service builds it from OpenStreetMap data, without\nnetwork the plugin builds it over vector base roads up to\n50 km. Routes by bike. A route is found when a point stands at\nan island of roads without an exit. The icon bar has no\nSubsurface mode icon, Refresh shows only without automatic\nupdate, screen tour recording is named Record a flight.\n0.53.0 A raster of absolute elevations, such as a bed\ntop grid, lies under the ground as a surface. The Surface by\nelevations item of the raster menu turns it on. A block with\nwalls along the data edge and a floor is built under the\ngrids, _top and _bottom grids make a bed slab with end walls.\nThe Ground above grids slider makes the ground transparent.\nBasemaps of the Base group are chosen with a radio button.\n0.52.0 Weather maps show their values over the colours -\ntemperature, precipitation, wind and clouds on an even grid.\nA placemark or a folder can hide beyond a distance, the Hide\nbeyond field of the properties window. Region from Google\nEarth KML works the same way and is saved to KML. The\nSatellites tab of the Maps and layers gallery chooses the\nsatellite groups with orbit previews.\n0.51.0 The globe menu has an Open in browser submenu with\ncustom items - addresses with the point under the cursor, for\nexample a weather forecast on windy.com. The Custom items\nwindow sets them. The Weather here item of the globe menu is\nremoved.\n0.50.0 The time slider and the tour bar are one panel at\nthe top of the view, the tour buttons form a second row under\nthe slider. The day step and comparison swipe buttons are blue\nicons. The swipe line no longer crosses the view panels.\n0.49.0 A comparison swipe shows a NASA theme for two\ndays side by side, by default a year apart. The Maps and\nlayers icon stays pressed while a gallery map is on the globe,\nthe cross on the map scale removes the map. Closing the\ngallery while previews load no longer crashes QGIS. The\nmanual describes how to make a video step by step.\n0.48.0 The gallery is called Maps and layers. Next to the\nNASA maps it holds the sky, inside the Earth and terrain\nanalysis layers - stars, clouds, sun, satellites,\nearthquakes, plate boundaries, Earth cutaway, paleogeography,\nslope and aspect, each with a preview. The Layers section\nkeeps the base map, terrain, the gallery row and the vector\nmap. The Satellite groups button chooses satellite groups.\n0.47.0 NASA maps, weather forecast, fires and surface\ntemperature are gathered in the NASA maps and weather gallery\nwith a preview of each map, group buttons and search. The\nLayers section is split into Base map, Map, Sky and light,\nInside the Earth and Terrain analysis. The New placemark\nwindow draws a circle. A NASA theme opens on the latest\nprocessed day, and snow mass no longer covers snowless land.\n0.46.0 The Map sheet designation submenu of the globe\nmenu shows map sheet numbers at the point - the International\nMap of the World 1:1,000,000, the Russian designation at\n1:1,000,000, 1:500,000 and 1:200,000, the NATO JOG 1:250,000\nsheet and the MGRS 100 km square. A click copies the number.\n0.45.0 The Weather group of the Layers section shows air\ntemperature, precipitation, wind and clouds of the NOAA GFS\nmodel at the moment of the time slider, a forecast up to 16\ndays ahead and the model analysis behind. The Weather here\nitem of the globe menu opens the MET Norway forecast at the\npoint, hourly for two days and daily for 10 days.\n0.44.0 A tour records to an MP4 video at the window size\nright away, Windows itself encodes it. PNG frame recording gets\na size choice up to 3840 x 2160. The globe menu shows the point\ncoordinates first, a click copies them. Its items are now Fly\nhere, Orbit around, Directions from here and to here, What's\nhere? with the place address, Measure distance, Copy link to\nplace with an OpenStreetMap link, and Paste.\n0.43.0 Directions from here and Directions to here in the\nglobe menu build a route by OpenStreetMap roads by car or on\nfoot. The path goes into My Places with the length and travel\ntime, the line under the search builds it the other way. The\npoints lie up to 50 km apart. The globe menu also has Orbit\naround, Get info and Paste from clipboard. The Planet of Water\ngroup has the Snow over 8 days and Snow mass themes with fewer\ngaps under clouds and in the polar night than daily snow.\n0.42.1 A view straight down at a pole from thousands of\nkilometres no longer brings a Python error window. It also\nhappened with the camera following a polar satellite.\n0.42.0 The Satellites row of the Layers section shows\nartificial satellites of the Earth as dots at their height.\nStations, navigation, weather, geostationary, Starlink and\nother groups are offered. CelesTrak gives the orbital elements,\nthe SGP4 model places them for the moment of the time slider\nor the clock. A click shows the number, height and speed of a\nsatellite. The selected satellite shows its orbit loop and\nground track, and the camera can follow it. The time slider\nruns at clock speeds from x1 to x86400, and the Now button\nsets the computer clock. With the Sun, satellites or the sky\nthe slider opens without timed placemarks and plays on past\nits edge.\n0.41.0 A linked image overlay is read again after the\ninterval of the new Refresh field while it is shown, a web\naddress past the cache. The globe keeps a fresh image or map\nthat a server updates by itself. KML refreshMode onInterval and\nrefreshInterval are read and written.\n0.40.0 Tracks and project layers with QGIS time follow the\ntime slider of the globe. A track grows up to the right handle,\na layer with time shows only its objects within the slider range,\non the picture and in the labels. The QGIS Temporal Controller no\nlonger acts on the globe. A scene keeps the slider range.\n0.39.0 The Data sources\u2026 button of the View properties window\nopens a window with all globe sources, their terms of use and an\navailability check. It sets own terrain (Terrarium or Mapbox\nTerrain-RGB) and an own vector base (OpenMapTiles TileJSON), adds,\nedits and removes base maps.\n0.38.0 The Fires row of the Planet of Fire group shows fire\nspots over the last 24 hours from the NASA FIRMS feed. Fires are\nchosen in the same list as the NASA themes, either the fires or one\ntheme is on. The colour and size of a dot show the radiative power,\nthe spots stand on the time slider, a click in the Identify mode\nshows the power and the image time. A layer legend shows also when\nit is the first one on the legend panel.\n0.37.0 With the Sun row city lights shine on the night side\nof the Earth from the NASA Black Marble image. In the twilight they\nfade together with the night, under clouds they are weaker.\n0.36.0 A height raster of the QGIS project becomes the globe\nterrain within its extent, the Globe terrain item of the raster menu\nin the Project layers section. At the edge of the extent the heights\nchange smoothly to the common terrain, within the extent the terrain\nis more detailed, down to the raster pixel. The Quarry, own terrain\ndemo is a synthetic 1 m survey of a quarry with benches and a waste\ndump near Berezniki. The right-click menu on the globe and dragging\nof ruler points, new placemark vertices, Earth cutaway corners and\nground overlay corners work again, in 0.34.0 and 0.35.0 they broke\noff with an error. A click on the base map checkbox no longer opens\na Python error window.\n0.35.0 A ground overlay, or all ground overlays of a folder,\ngoes into the QGIS project as GeoTIFF raster layers by the corners\nof the image, in the PlanetX - images group. The Aral Sea demo\nshows the three kinds of overlays by links to web addresses. These\nare MODIS images of 2000, 2014 and 2023 as radio buttons, a photo\nof the ships at Moynaq and a basin map on the screen. QGIS 3.36 no\nlonger crashes on exit when My Places hold ground overlays.\n0.34.0The Add submenu of a My Places folder adds a ground\noverlay, a photo and a screen overlay. A ground overlay is placed\nby a box with rotation or by four corners, with handles to move,\nrotate and stretch it, as in Google Earth. The image is kept in\nthe places file or as a link to a file or web address. Google\nEarth overlays open from KML and KMZ and save back with images.\nThe time slider is one time of the view: a NASA theme takes the\nday of the right handle, placemarks and earthquakes the range.\nWithout events the slider has one handle and steps over the theme\nseries. The legends stand as one panel. The assistant button left\nthe Search field, a topic typed there becomes placemarks, the\nassistant settings are in the View properties window.\n0.33.0 Paleogeography shows land relief and sea depths of\nthe past after the PALEOMAP PaleoDEM maps, up to 540 million years\nago. Changing the age and playing ages no longer stall the view.\nThe Planet of Fire, Planet of Water, Gases and Land and Life groups\nof the Layers section show 21 NASA GIBS themes - smoke, carbon\nmonoxide, precipitation, snow, sea ice, gases, vegetation, night\nlights and others. The day of a theme is set by its own slider,\na legend stands in the corner of the view.\n0.32.0 The Subsurface mode icon shows drill holes along\ntheir survey, bed roofs, section walls with images, tunnels and\na cut block under the surface, with a transparent surface and\na camera underground. The data are ordinary project layers,\nchecked layers go under the globe in 3D and take their style\nand labels from QGIS. A polygon of My Places cuts the model,\na path puts a section wall, the Model section window shows the\nbeds along a path. The Demo icon opens Permian deposits with\na tour and Vegas Loop tunnels. The Manual link of the About\nwindow opens the PDF in the system viewer.\n0.31.0 A topic in the Search line for which no places are\nfound, for example Voyages of Columbus, turns into placemarks at\nonce. Placemarks that the assistant proposes in a conversation\nshow below the Search line with the Write to My Places link.\nWhile the Properties window of a placemark, path or polygon is\nopen, its vertices can be dragged on the globe, OK writes the\nshape too. The Edit shape and Rename items left the menus, the\nname and the shape are changed in the Properties window.\n0.30.0 Paleogeography shows continents without holes or\nwater strips inside, with coasts four times finer, about 5 km at\nthe equator. An age opens in a fraction of a second instead of\n6-25 s. Relief is off in this mode, and the loading icon shows\nwhile a map loads.\n0.29.0 The Search line suggests your places and earlier\nqueries while you type, and stars and constellations in the sky.\nEnter on the exact name of your place flies to it without a\nnetwork request. Assistant places are richer: up to 100 places,\nroutes along the real path, territories as polygons and times\nwherever they are known. Route stages grow on the time slider.\nThe answer arrives as a stream with a count of places and a Stop\nlink that keeps the places already complete. After a search by\nname, the Make places on \"topic\" link turns a topic into\nplaces. KML tracks gx:Track open as lines with a time span.\nAssistant places are read when the model writes spaces after\ncommas, time inside a line, a polygon without an outer boundary\nor HTML in a description. Years before the common era are written\ncorrectly, and years longer than four digits are read.\n0.28.0 The Plate boundaries row shows the lithospheric\nplate boundaries after the PB2002 model: red where plates move\napart, green along transform faults, blue where they converge.\nPlate names show as labels. The Features window shows the\nboundary type, the plate pair and the speed in mm/yr.\n0.27.2 The plugin works as in 0.27.1. Stress checks of\nthe base map loading are added for the developers.\n0.27.1 The assistant is one button by the Search field.\nA click makes places from a description, the arrow opens the\nconversation and the settings. The assistant icon is no longer\non the icon bar. Clear My Places\u2026 removes all placemarks and\nfolders after a confirmation.\n0.27.0 A button by the Search field makes places from a\ndescription, for example \"the voyage of Columbus\". The model\nanswers with one KML document, the places appear in My Places\nand on the globe at once and the camera flies to them. Events\ncarry their dates, the time slider opens on them. The Cancel\nlink below the field removes the places. The Demo icon opens\nthe Japan Trench with earthquakes and an Earth cutaway across\nthe subduction zone. A scene keeps the cutaway sector.\n0.26.0 The Search field understands requests in words, for\nexample \"show a section across the Japan Trench\". The request\ngoes to the assistant, the answer appears below the field. Place\nnames and coordinates are found as before. The assistant works\nwith Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, OpenRouter and an own service of the\nOpenAI Chat format, for example Ollama on this computer.\nOpenRouter with free models is chosen by default, its key is\nfree. Ollama works without a key and without the internet. The\nAssistant window shows the conversation, the service, model and\nkey are in the Assistant settings window. The key is kept in the\nQGIS profile settings without the master password by default.\n0.25.1 The Assistant icon opens a conversation with the\nClaude or Grok AI model. On a request in words the model flies,\nswitches Layers rows, sets the Earth cutaway and sections and\nanswers about points and earthquakes. It proposes placemarks\nas KML, they are written after confirmation. An API key of\nyour own is needed, it is kept in the QGIS password manager.\nThe Features window also shows My Places placemarks,\nearthquake foci, the Moho, crust and slab under the point.\nThe Paleogeography row shows the coastlines of the past up to\na billion years ago. The globe window always opens on today's\nEarth.\n0.25.0 The Earthquakes row of the Layers panel shows\nthe earthquakes of the last 30 days from the USGS feed at their\ndepth, coloured by depth and sized by magnitude. The Earth\nsection row takes a sector out of the Earth and shows the crust,\nmantle, core and subducting slabs on its faces, its corners are\ndragged with the mouse. Section down in the menu of a path draws\na section of the Earth along the path in a window and as a wall\non the globe.\nTerrain shows sea and ocean depths under translucent water.\nVertices in the New placemark window are dragged with the mouse,\nthe circle in the middle of a segment adds a vertex, a click on\nthe first point closes the shape. A right click on the globe\nopens a menu, Edit shape there edits a saved placemark, path or\npolygon. The globe updates automatically by default.\n0.24.1 The Demo icon has a Jezero crater scene on Mars\nwith the Perseverance landing site, an elevation profile across\nthe crater, a point for the viewshed, a flight around and the\nslope colouring. Depressions of Mars and the Moon deeper than\n3 km, such as Isidis and Hellas, are no longer covered by a\nblurred patch of imagery.\n0.24.0 Terrain analysis. Slope and Aspect rows of the\nLayers panel colour the Earth, Mars and the Moon by terrain\nslope classes or by the compass direction slopes face. Viewshed\nfrom here in the menu of a point placemark colours the places\nseen from it green and the hidden ones red, with observer and\ntarget heights. Insolation shows the hours of direct sunlight\nper day for chosen dates, with mountain shadows. The point of the\nelevation profile no longer jumps to earlier places of the same\nheight.\n0.23.0 Folders of My Places have a properties window:\nname, description, view, allow expanding and show contents as\noption buttons, with radio buttons in the list. A double click\nor Fly to goes to the folder view or frames its places. The\nfolder menu has Add, Cut, Snapshot folder view and Sort A-Z,\nfolder properties are kept in KML. The Base map group of the Layers panel switches\nimagery at once. Add tile source opens a window that takes a tile\naddress in any form, shows a world mosaic, finds the most detailed\nlevel and saves the source as a QGIS XYZ Tiles connection. The\ntour bar and the time slider have the same blue buttons, the time\nslider plays in a loop.\n0.21.0 Sixteen more bodies in the Body menu: Mercury,\nVenus, Jupiter, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Mimas, Enceladus,\nTethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Iapetus, Ceres and Vesta, with global\nNASA and USGS imagery. The Earth heads the menu, other bodies sit\nin short submenus. Jupiter fits the view as a whole.\n0.20.0 Mars and the Moon have terrain: mountains,\ncraters and plains from NASA MOLA and LOLA heights, with the same\nvertical scale as on the Earth. The loop button on the tour bar\nrepeats the tour from the first stop. Closing the globe window\non Mars or the Moon no longer ends with an error.\n0.19.0 The Body icon of the icon bar puts Mars or the\nMoon in place of the Earth, with their own imagery, and a place\nkeeps its body. The Sky item shows the starry sky from the centre\nof the celestial sphere: the Milky Way, stars, constellation\nlines and names, the Sun, the Moon and the planets at the time\nset by the time slider or the computer clock. Places, tours and\ntour recording work in the sky. The Demo icon with an academic\ncap opens prepared scenes: Perm and Boca Chica, landing sites on\nMars and the Moon, constellations and bright objects in the\nsky.\n0.18.0 Sun light with the night side of the Earth by\nthe time slider or the clock. 3D path and 3D polygon of the\nruler over roofs and walls of 3D buildings, kept in My Places\nand KML.\n0.17.3 The placemark time slider opens with a button on\nthe icon bar or by itself on a flight to a dated view, a\nclosed slider shows all placemarks.\n0.17.2 The description, manual and changelog describe\nthe plugin in its own words.\n0.17.1 The navigation controls in the corner of the\nview are always shown, as a faint outline away from the\ncursor and in full near it. Tooltips describe the plugin in\nits own words.\n0.17.0 Ruler with ground length, heading and dragging\nof points. Elevation profile of lines and paths. Coordinates\nin degrees, DMS, UTM or MGRS, search understands all four.\nPlacemark icons, placemark time with a time slider,\nrecording a tour from the screen, all kept in\nKML. The Perm demo in the Scene menu.\n0.16.0 3D buildings in the Layers panel.\nOpenStreetMap buildings rise as blocks when the camera\nis closer than 6 km to the ground, with the height from\nOpenStreetMap or from the number of floors. They are off by\ndefault. A scene remembers the rows of the Layers panel.\n0.15.0 Any place can have a view of its own:\nlook point, range, heading and tilt. Snapshot view in the\nplace menu and the Place view section of the properties set it,\nfly-to and tours follow it, KML keeps it as LookAt. A slider on\nthe tour bar shows how much of the tour has passed and winds it.\nThe manual explains how to make an MP4 video from recorded frames.\n0.14.0 A spinning icon to the right of the icon bar shows\nthat loading goes on, it turns orange when loading stalls.\n0.13.0 Labels of vector project layers on the globe, like\ncity names: level at any turn and tilt, without overlaps, with\nthe text, colour and size of the layer labels in QGIS.\n0.12.0 Land and sea temperature from NASA data in the\nLayers panel, off by default. A scale in degrees Celsius is shown\nin the bottom left corner of the view. The coordinate grid with\nlabels no longer breaks drawing with an error, the fault came in\n0.10.0.\n0.11.0 The Milky Way behind the Earth,\nfrom the NASA sky map. The sky image is downloaded once when the\nstars are first shown. Files of GitHub releases and other\nredirected tiles now load in QGIS 3.\n0.10.0 A coordinate grid: the step follows\nthe camera height, lines are labelled, the equator, tropics and\npolar circles are yellow. Stars around the Earth at their places in\nthe sky. Clouds from NASA imagery of the last complete day, in the\nLayers panel. Translucent own lines and walls no longer turn dark.\n0.9.0 Copy and paste in My Places: places\nand folders go to the clipboard as KML text, which can be edited in\na text editor and pasted back. The place properties window no longer\nblocks the globe, changes show at once and a Ground - Space slider\nsets the height. A PDF manual with pictures in Russian and English\nships with the plugin and opens from About.\n0.8.0 On-screen navigation controls: the\ncompass ring with N, the look and move sticks and the height slider\nwith plus and minus appear in the top right corner of the view. A\ncheck box in the view properties keeps them on screen. The view\nproperties open from the icon bar. The About window describes the\nfeatures, controls and requirements.\n0.7.0 Mouse and keys: double click zooms to\na point, right drag zooms, Ctrl looks around, arrows, PageUp,\nPageDown, N, U, R and Space. The left panel has collapsible\nsections Places, Project layers and Layers. Several places are\nselected with Ctrl and Shift, deleted with Del, shown, hidden and\ndragged together. A double click on a project layer flies to it.\nA manual in Russian and English opens from About.\n0.6.1 My Places shows an icon of the kind before each name -\nplacemark, path, polygon or saved view. A new placemark gets a\nnumbered name at once, My placemark 1, My path 1, View 1, each kind\ncounts on its own.\n0.6.0 Scenes: the whole view - camera, time, layers, settings\nand a My Places folder with its tour - saves to a file and opens on\nanother computer. Database passwords stay out of the file. The\nrecord button on the tour bar saves the tour as PNG frames for a\nvideo, each frame waits for the tiles. The status line shows what\nis still loading and when loading has stalled.\n0.5.2 Growing tracks: Track in the menu of a point layer shows\nit as paths of its objects along the QGIS Temporal Controller, with\nthe camera following along the motion if wanted. Labels no longer\nbreak drawing in QGIS 3.40 with an old PyOpenGL. No errors after the\nglobe is closed. A frame no longer stops on an OpenGL error left by\nanother plugin.\n0.5.1 The base map no longer stops loading and stays blurred,\nthe fault came in 0.5.0. The globe turns as smoothly with large\nplaces, such as the regions of a country from KML, as without them.\nPlace properties: name, description, colors,\nheight above ground and extending to the ground, a path becomes a\nwall and a polygon a block. KML files: Open KML or KMZ puts\nthe file into My Places with folders, styles and views, Save as KML\nwrites a folder back.\n0.5.0 Tours: Play tour flies over the\nchecked places of My Places or a folder, a saved view restores its\nheight, heading and tilt, along a path the camera travels the line.\nFolders in My Places with dragging of places and folders. View\nsnapshot to PNG or JPEG larger than the window, the view into a\nQGIS layout as a picture embedded in the project. Transparency and\nproperties of project layers in the globe list. Hide sidebar\nbutton. Camera motion goes first, tiles load less often while\nmoving.\n0.4.3 The plugin passes the Qt 6 check of the QGIS plugin\nrepository. Nothing changes in the globe itself.\n0.4.2 My Places is a folder right under the Globe row,\nshown even when empty. Its check box shows or hides\nall places, a double click on a place flies there. Save view is a\nbutton of its own and puts a placemark that restores the height,\nheading and tilt. The QGIS bookmarks menu is removed.\n0.4.1 A large polygon no longer hangs QGIS while it is drawn.\nArrow cursor over the globe, closed hand while dragging, cross for\nthe ruler, new placemark and identify.\n0.4.0 My Places: placemarks, paths and\npolygons drawn on the globe and saved in a shared file. Ruler with\nline, path, polygon and circle on the WGS84 ellipsoid, measurements\nsaved to My Places. QGIS bookmarks and Save view with heading and\ntilt. Selection both ways between the map and the globe. Layers as\non the QGIS map and new layers straight to the globe. Less detailed\nimagery instead of gray tiles where detailed imagery is missing.\n0.3.2 Synchronization with the QGIS map window in any coordinate\nsystem. Identify features by a click on the globe. Coordinates and\nelevation under the cursor in the status line. Borders, place names\nand terrain are on by default, other layers off.\n0.3.1 Place search by name, with a red pin\non the place found and a list of other matches. Search runs through\nNominatim.\n0.3.0 Esri World Imagery by default. Project layers on the\nglobe in the QGIS map order. Layers panel with\nborders, place and water names, roads and road numbers, railways,\nairports, rivers, lakes, peaks and protected areas. Labels\nwith a choice of language. Terrain can be\nswitched off, vertical exaggeration. Refresh button and automatic\nrefresh. Own PlanetX toolbar.\n0.2.0 Terrain relief with hill shading, the camera stays above\nthe ground. Atmosphere: glow around the planet, sky and haze at the\nhorizon. Base map list with OpenStreetMap and the XYZ Tiles\nconnections of QGIS, for example satellite imagery. About window.\n0.1.1 The PlanetX button is now on the Plugins toolbar. The Web\ntoolbar, where it was before, is hidden in QGIS by default.\n0.1.0 First release. Globe with the OpenStreetMap base map,\ngrab-the-Earth navigation with inertia, zoom to the cursor, turn\nand tilt, fly-to coordinates.", "external_deps": null, "download_url": "https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/planetx/version/0.77.0/download/"}