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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

gibsGridfunction

The Geographic (EPSG:4326) tile matrix NASA's imagery service publishes, read from its capabilities on 2026-11-13. A pixel is 0.5625 / 2^level degrees. Tiles are 512 pixels, the corner of column 0 and row 0 is longitude -180 and latitude 90, and a level has as many tiles as it takes to cover the Earth, so levels 0, 1 and 2 run past it.

Import it

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

Definition

function gibsGrid(matrix: "31.25m" | "250m" | "500m"): MapGrid

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
matrix"31.25m" | "250m" | "500m"

250m (levels 0 to 8), 500m (levels 0 to 7) or 31.25m (levels 0 to 11, the Landsat and shaded-relief layers).

Returns

MapGrid

The grid.

Examples

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

console.log(gibsGrid("250m").levels[3]);
{
  level: 3,
  width: 5120,
  columns: 10,
  rows: 5,
  west: -180,
  north: 90,
  tileLon: 36,
  tileLat: 36
}

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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