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Re: 3D plot of globe (map of world)?

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  • Subject: [mg67896] Re: 3D plot of globe (map of world)?
  • From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 05:05:29 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Stanford University
  • References: <e8vu3v$t2i$1@smc.vnet.net>
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In article <e8vu3v$t2i$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
 liu at vtaix.cc.vt.edu (Xiangdong Liu) wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Not sure if this question has been asked before but does anyone know how
> to make a 3D plot of the world or globe?  Or at least the map of a continent
> on a 3D globe?
> 

Just for info, I asked this same question several years ago (wanted to 
overlay airline flights I'd taken onto a 3D globe).

Got no helpful answers then, haven't heard of any since (but, there's 
now Google Earth . . . )


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