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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

Printable sheets: the globe and a world map to colour, my country, day and night, the seasons

import { … } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/sheets";

Exports

NameKindWhat it is
CapitaltypeA capital city: its name, as the sheet says it in each language, and where it is.
continentLinesfunctionThe coasts of the continents as lines in longitude and latitude, for a child to colour a whole continent: the line round each continent and between two continents (Europe and Asia), and none between two countries of one continent.
countryCodesfunctionThe two-letter codes of the countries that have an outline.
countryFactsfunctionThe three facts of a "my country" sheet: the continent it is in, the countries it touches and its capital.
CountryOptionstypeWhat a "my country" sheet is drawn for: the room, the language and the type, and the capital.
countryShapefunctionOne country by its ISO alpha-2 code, for a "my country" sheet: its main land and the islands near it (a far territory such as French Guiana is left out), the continent it is in and the countries it touches.
CountryShapetypeOne country as the sheets draw it: its names, its continent, its land as one feature and the names of the countries it touches.
countrySheetSvgfunctionA "my country" colouring sheet: the country's outline as big as the room allows (an equal-area view centred on the country, with a far territory such as French Guiana left out), its capital as a star when capital is given, a box to draw the flag in, and three facts: the continent, the countries it touches, the capital.
dayNightFactsfunctionThe three facts of the day and night sheet for a moment, with the place the Sun is straight overhead then.
dayNightSvgfunctionThe day and night sheet: the Earth with the Sun's light coming from the right, the lit half left white (day) and the dark half hatched (night), the line between them thick, and three facts, for the date and time you give.
dayNightViewfunctionThe turn of the globe on the day and night sheet for a moment: the Sun's longitude less 90 degrees at the middle, so the lit half is on the right, tipped to show the north.
earthFactsfunctionThe three facts of the globe sheet and of the world map, in plain words.
GLOBE_VIEWSconstantThe three views of the globe sheet: the Americas, Europe and Africa, and Asia and Oceania.
globeSheetSvgfunctionThe globe as a colouring sheet: one side of the Earth as a big disc, the continents with thick outlines, the continents' and oceans' names written on them, and three facts under it.
GlobeViewtypeThe name of a view of the globe sheet.
hatchPathfunctionParallel lines, spacing apart at angleDeg, cut to where inside(x, y) is true, as the data of one SVG path (a millimetre of the picture is a millimetre of the paper).
landSharesfunctionHow much of the Earth is land, by the package's outlines, in percent, and the share of all the land each continent has.
PlacetypeA continent or an ocean, with where its name is written on a globe and on the flat map.
PLACESconstantThe seven continents and the five oceans the sheets name, with the longitude and latitude where each name is written.
SAYconstantThe package's name, the credits and the words a sheet carries, by language (the brand in a sheet's header is the page's to pass in).
seasonsFactsfunctionThe three facts of the seasons sheet.
seasonsSvgfunctionThe seasons sheet: the Sun in the middle, the Earth's orbit as a ring, and the Earth at four points of it (March, June, September and December), each with its tilt, the dark half hatched, the season of the northern half named, and three facts.
SheetOptionstypeWhat a sheet is drawn for: the room in millimetres, the language and the type.
terminatorfunctionThe line between day and night at a moment: the points 90 degrees from where the Sun is straight overhead, as longitude and latitude.
thickPathfunctionA d3-geo path made fit for a thick line: simpler to within toleranceMm, loops whose longest side is under minLoopMm left out, corners rounded.
TILT_DEGREESconstantThe tilt of the Earth's axis to its orbit, in degrees (the IAU's obliquity of the ecliptic at J2000: 23.4393).
TITLESconstantThe title of each kind of sheet, in a language.
worldMapSvgfunctionThe world map as a colouring sheet: all the land on one flat map, the continents with thick outlines, the names of the continents and of the five oceans written on it, and three facts.

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