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Chikyu Earth地球

A line-drawn globe of the world's countries that turns at the Earth's own rate, with an optional realistic Earth from space and markers for any place.

Chikyu is the Japanese word 地球 for the Earth. About the name

Contents

Reference · The data door: hand the package your own maps of the Earth or orbit data as a source with its own licence and credit, and see whose data is on the screen

OWN_SOURCESconstant

The package's own data, as sources, written from the rows of NOTICE.md: chikyu-pictures (the whole-Earth pictures of the realistic Earth: day, night, clouds and water) and chikyu-tiles (the finer map tiles cut from NASA's bigger maps). A test holds that none is non-commercial or share-alike, so the package can pass all of it on under the MIT licence. A view's credit line is written from these and from the sources a caller handed in.

Import it

import { OWN_SOURCES } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/door";

Definition

const OWN_SOURCES: readonly SourceInfo[] = freeze([
    {
        id: "chikyu-pictures",
        name: { en: "Earth pictures", ja: "地球の画像" },
        credit: {
            en: "Earth pictures: NASA Earth Observatory (Blue Marble, Reto Stöckli; Black Marble, Suomi NPP VIIRS data)",
            ja: "地球の画像:NASA Earth Observatory(ブルーマーブル、Reto Stöckli/ブラックマーブル、Suomi NPP VIIRSデータ)",
        },
        licence: { name: "Public domain", url: `${NOTICE}#the-realistic-earths-pictures` },
        url: "https://github.com/johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/tree/main/textures",
        retrieved: "2026-11-02",
    },
    {
        id: "chikyu-tiles",
        name: { en: "Finer map tiles", ja: "細かい地図のタイル" },
        credit: {
            en: "Finer map tiles: NASA Earth Observatory (Blue Marble: Next Generation; Black Marble, Suomi NPP VIIRS data), cut by Chikyu Earth",
            ja: "細かい地図のタイル:NASA Earth Observatory(ブルーマーブル・ネクストジェネレーション/ブラックマーブル、Suomi NPP VIIRSデータ)、Chikyu Earthで切り出したもの",
        },
        licence: { name: "Public domain", url: `${NOTICE}#the-earth-tiles` },
        url: "https://johnmorrisdotca.github.io/chikyu-earth/tiles/",
        retrieved: "2026-11-08",
    },
])

Examples

import { OWN_SOURCES } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/door";

console.log(OWN_SOURCES.map((source) => `${source.id}: ${source.licence.name}`));
[ 'chikyu-pictures: Public domain', 'chikyu-tiles: Public domain' ]

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth 0.51.1.