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mission:log:2014:06:17:new-fresh-global-cloudmap-distribution-service-xplanet [2014/06/18 07:51] chronomission:log:2014:06:17:new-fresh-global-cloudmap-distribution-service-xplanet [2015/04/11 18:03] (current) chrono
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 ======= Open and fresh global cloudmaps for the planet ====== ======= Open and fresh global cloudmaps for the planet ======
  
-Back in the early 90's, when I first tried GNU/Linux, there weren't many things I could really do with my X session, due to lack of knowledge, skill, confidence and available open-source software. However, I did play with xearth, a program that renders a somewhat accurate image of our planet. A couple of years later it was replaced by xplanet which offered a lot more features and eye-candy options.+Back in the early 90's, when I first tried GNU/Linux, there weren't many things I could really do with my X session, due to lack of knowledge, skill, confidence and available open-source software. However, I did play with xearth, a program that renders a somewhat accurate image of our planet. A couple of years later it was replaced by [[http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/|xplanet]] which offered a lot more features and eye-candy options.
  
 With NASA's release of the [[http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/|visible-earth]] program we suddenly had open access to high detail day/night, bump (relief) and specular (reflection) maps of the earth which can be used as textures with xplanet. With NASA's release of the [[http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/|visible-earth]] program we suddenly had open access to high detail day/night, bump (relief) and specular (reflection) maps of the earth which can be used as textures with xplanet.
  
-After playing a bit more with xplanet again for a couple of days in order to get realtime satellite positions directly on the desktop (see https://github.com/chron0/xfce-planet) I got frustrated by the cloud layer again. There was a time where some people put up mirrors of the near current (3-6 hours) global cloudmap we could use as a source in xplanet, but now it seems to have been split into some paid subscription model for high resolution and the low resolution image is distributed via CoralCDN, which, although I like the concept, failed constantly in delivering the global cloudmap.+After playing a bit more with xplanet again for a couple of days in order to get realtime satellite positions directly on the desktop (see [[https://github.com/apollo-ng/xfce-planet|xfce-planet]]) I got frustrated by the cloud layer again. There was a time when some people put up mirrors of the near current (3-6 hours) global cloudmap we could use as a source for xplanet, but now it seems to have been split into some paid subscription model for high resolution and the low resolution image is distributed via CoralCDN, which, although I like the concept, failed constantly in delivering the global cloudmap.
  
-By sheer accident I stumbled upon https://github.com/jmozmoz/cloudmap, so I tried it locally and it worked like a charm which in turn led to the idea to offer the image I need anyways to everyone else who desires to have a fresh high detail cloudmap. And with that the Global Cloudmap Generator was born. A little script creates a new cloudmap every three hours and then commits and pushes it to the public github repo (https://github.com/apollo-ng/cloudmap/to use github's infrastructure as CDN we can hopefully rely upon.+By sheer accident I stumbled upon https://github.com/jmozmoz/cloudmap, so I tried it locally and it worked like a charm which in turn led to the idea to offer the image I need anyways to everyone else who desires to have a fresh high detail cloudmap, without having to set up the required infrastructure. And with that the Global Cloudmap Generator Robot was born, who creates a new cloudmap every three hours and then commits and pushes it to the [[https://github.com/apollo-ng/cloudmap/|public global cloudmap repo]] to use github's infrastructure as CDN we can hopefully rely upon.
  
 And you can just get the latest map by grabbing: And you can just get the latest map by grabbing:
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