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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

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Reference · The place under a point: country, sea, continent and the nearest city

PlaceOftype

What placeOf returns. country is set only when the point is inside an outline. near is set only when it is not, and a country lies within PLACE_COAST_KM. sea is set when country is not, and a named water is within its reach. continent follows the country or the nearby country, and is null over open water. Oceania is not one of the seven continents in the sea-names list: an island country chizu groups there has id oceania and chizu's own names. Australia the country uses the Australia continent.

Import it

import type { PlaceOf } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/place";

Definition

interface PlaceOf {
    country: PlaceCountry | null;
    near: PlaceNear | null;
    sea: PlaceName | null;
    continent: PlaceName | null;
    nearestCity: PlaceCity | null;
}

Members

NameTypeDescription
countryPlaceCountry | null
nearPlaceNear | null
seaPlaceName | null
continentPlaceName | null
nearestCityPlaceCity | null

Examples

import type { PlaceOf } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/place";

const empty: PlaceOf = { country: null, near: null, sea: null, continent: null, nearestCity: null };
console.log(empty.country);
null

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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