Updated Image of Spinning Earth

[GTI.H]

Hi,

Does anyone know where we can find an image of the earth that is updated like this one from the moon?



I'd really like to use it on my Skin, any help is appreciated.

[jsmorley]

I don't know where to get that, but this is kinda fun...

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
DynamicWindowSize=1
AccurateText=1

[MeasureYear]
Measure=Time
Format=%Y
TimeZone=0

[MeasureMonth]
Measure=Time
Format=%m
TimeZone=0

[MeasureDay]
Measure=Time
Format=%d
TimeZone=0

[MeasureHour]
Measure=Time
Format=%H
TimeZone=0

[MeasureMinute]
Measure=Time
Format=%M
TimeZone=0

[MeasureImage]
Measure=WebParser
URL=https://www.timeanddate.com/scripts/sunmap.php?iso=[&MeasureYear][&MeasureMonth][&MeasureDay]T[&MeasureHour][&MeasureMinute]
DynamicVariables=1
Download=1
DownloadFile=SunMap.jpg

[MeterImage]
Meter=Image
MeasureName=MeasureImage

1.png

[GTI.H]

Cool!

But my Skin needs a globe preferably with sunlight, etc. similar to Google Maps.

Globo.JPG

Something like this but with updates.
Any ideas?

[jsmorley]

I'm willing to bet there is such a site, but sorry, I have no idea where it might be.

The trouble with that view, as opposed to a Mercator projection map, is that you have to pick a "viewpoint". So for me, the example you posted is useless, as I not on it.

[GTI.H]

It would be amazing to find this site.

I'm not on the moon but I really like your realistic image with the sun's rays!

[ikarus1969]

Maybe you want to try and adapt that skin. you have to define a pair of longitude/latitude coordinates and the height above earth.
The picture is generated by a swiss site (driven by John Walker, the founder of Autodesk and co-author of AutoCAD if someone still knows that program); just follow instructions on https://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/custom.html:

Screenshot Earth.jpg

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; follow instructions on
; https://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/custom.html

[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
AccurateText=1
OnWakeAction=[!Refresh]
DynamicWindowSize=1


[Measure_PIC]
Measure=WEBPARSER
; Url="http://fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Earth?img=NASAmMM-l.evif&imgsize=320&dynimg=y&gamma=1.32&opt=-p&lat=&lon=&alt=&tle=&date=0&utc=&jd="
Url="http://fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Earth?img=NASAmMM-l.evif&imgsize=320&dynimg=y&gamma=1.32&opt=-l&lat=48.2&ns=North&lon=16.37&ew=East&alt=35785&tle=&date=0&utc=&jd="
Download=1
DownloadFile=.\\Earth.jpg
UserAgent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36
FinishAction=[!UpdateMeter "Meter_PIC"]
DynamicVariables=1

[Meter_Container]
Meter=SHAPE
Shape=Ellipse (#WORKAREAX# + 160), (#WORKAREAY# + 160), 160, 160 | Stroke Color FF000000 | Fill Color FF0000FF
DynamicVariables=1

[Meter_PIC]
Container=Meter_Container
Meter=IMAGE
ImageName=DownloadFile\Earth.jpg
X=#WORKAREAX#
Y=#WORKAREAY#
W=320
PreserveAspectRatio=1
AntiAlias=1

[GTI.H]

Maybe you want to try and adapt that skin. you have to define a pair of longitude/latitude coordinates and the height above earth.
The picture is generated by a swiss site (driven by John Walker, the founder of Autodesk and co-author of AutoCAD if someone still knows that program); just follow instructions on https://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/custom.html:

Oh! Thank you!

Sounds pretty good and that's the best we have here so far, I'm going to study your suggestion.

It would be very good if the globe had its axis of rotation on vertical on the plane of the image with the rays of sun falling on the left of the globe equal to the image of the moon that we have.

[balala]

Maybe you want to try and adapt that skin. you have to define a pair of longitude/latitude coordinates and the height above earth.
The picture is generated by a swiss site (driven by John Walker, the founder of Autodesk and co-author of AutoCAD if someone still knows that program);

If you're downloading an image with a WebParser measure, instead of using an ImageName option on the related Image meter, much better would be to use a MeasureName option. That's why I'd replace the ImageName=DownloadFile\Earth.jpg option of [Meter_PIC] meter with MeasureName=Measure_PIC.

[GTI.H]

Maybe you want to try and adapt that skin. you have to define a pair of longitude/latitude coordinates and the height above earth.
The picture is generated by a swiss site (driven by John Walker, the founder of Autodesk and co-author of AutoCAD if someone still knows that program); just follow instructions on https://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/custom.html:

Amazing, amazing, amazing!

I have not mastered this site yet, but it's hard to find something better, it does everything except coffee. What to expect from a site with a parent like that?

We need information about the syntax of the URL for better domain.
I will try to implement this globe in my Skin and I will need to remove the black background.
Is this possible with v4.2.0?

[ikarus1969]

much better would be to use a MeasureName option.

It's not better, just different. Maybe i want to keep the downloaded file and not be deleted (because it's in a temporary folder).