World Locations

[kevnar]

Is there a file which includes more of the world's locations, up to and including very small towns if you zoom in close enough?

Also, is there a feature in Celestia to arbitrarily punch in a geopositional coordinate and spin right around to that location? There are websites which allow you to look up your GPS information based on your postal/zip code. I'd like to take a look at the sky from above my house (virtually speaking that is).

Thanks for your help.

[alphap1us]

Hello kevnar,

The most complete set of Earth locations that I know of are at http://celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/earth.html

You are looking for the last entry before the last section. "Earth Location File"
I hope this will be enough for you.

Under windows, select "Goto object" from the naviagtion menu. Then you can enter Lat/Long co-ordinates for any planet, including earth.

Cheers,

Joe

[kevnar]

I downloaded the thing and copied it to my Extras folder. Is that right? What do I do now?

Sorry, I just started with Celestia yesterday. I'm not exactly brain-dead, but I do appreciate a little help.


Edit:

Sorry, never mind. I just had to restart Celestia, and they all showed up. Thanks a bunch.

Now if only someone could point me to a comprehensive list of what directories to put all of these surface, normal, spec, and bump maps I'm downloading. The readme files included aren't always very "verbose".

[selden]

Please take a look at the Web page http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/addon-intro.html

Please let me know what needs to be added.

[Redfish]

If only there were a file with the country names...

[selden]

It doesn't include names, but country borders are available at http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/hutchison/borders.html

[t00fri]

If only there were a file with the country names...

It's so easy: just learn a little PERL, and write a 5-line script to be applied to the original Earth-Gazetteer data. There is almost everything contained that anyone might dream to extract one day.


Bye Fridger