in reply to PMplanet has a new home

Is there a way to show the 'other half' of the planet? I notice that there is a 'Zoom of Europe' available, but at least some of us on the back half of the planet feel a little left out. There are after all a fair number of monks in Australasia, Asia, the Indian sub-continent and other areas of the 'back half'.

True laziness is hard work

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Re^2: PMplanet has a new home
by bart (Canon) on Feb 03, 2010 at 21:42 UTC
    Blame theorbtwo. ;-)

    But really, that was one of the things I had done back then, years ago, and is one of the things I was going to introduce again real soon.

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      Indeed, blame me. There was one for a while, but most of the time, it ended up being a lot of CPU to generate a blank globe. Now, it'll probably be a lot less CPU to generate a blank globe, and that's OK. Note that the view is dynamic, though -- the globe will move about as the centre of gravity of the monks moves about. There's a bit of a dodge there to keep the view from going polar, both because it just looked strange to me, and because the cloud map is glaringly bad at the poles... but it will freely rotate east-west -- you aren't being unfairly not shown, there just aren't many of you.

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        Ahh, nice. So I just have to wait until the Asian and Indian monks become active and the US and Europe ones have all gone to bed and maybe New Zealand will show at the edge?

        True laziness is hard work
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      I blame Christopher Columbus.

      If we all still believed the earth was flat, this would not be a problem. But noooooo, he had to go and prove go the damned thing is a sphere.

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        "Oblate spheroid", actually. </nit> ;-)

        HTH,

        planetscape
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