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I'm using the Globe Builder plugin, halo is looking fine in the map window but not showing on layout or when I export image from project. I don't really want to use layout, export to image would be enough. Why the halo not showing tho? How can I create a halo myself for the globe?
I am trying to build a world using the software, and in order to do so I first need to create a pattern on a globe, and then draw some basic elements on a Mercator projection with that pattern. I have used the circle and line features to draw this pattern, and now I would ideally have a png in the Mercator projection so that I can start the rest of the process.
I hope this is enough information to help understand my issue. If you know of how to do what I need or know where I can find the required resources to learn how to do it then I would appreciate the guidence.
Since the Transverse Mercator projection is essentially a rotation of the standard Mercator projection cylinder I suppose one hacky option is to introduce that equivalent rotation into your rotation file. Perhaps as a new plate ID relative to the normal anchor plate 0. And then select that new plate ID as the anchor plate.
You might find it easier to either save your dataset (in the File Manage datasets window) as a shapefile which will be in WGS84 projection by default. Then use any GIS software to read this in an reproject to Mercator if that is really what you need. In general, when working with GIS type data outside of GPlates itslef, it is best to use the WGS84 projection since GPlates also fully understands this when you want to bring things back from GIS into Gplates.
For my work I came acrossthis quite terrible data visualization by the UN FAO. It is mind-blowingly complex, overdesigned and really only shows very limited information. All of this could have fitted in a modestly sized table. There is a day/night shadow being rendered for some reason, the combination of North America and Europe, leads a placement of bubbles in the middle of the ocean, it is unclear how the size of the bubbles relate or scale, no borders are drawn (but elevation/relief is for some odd reason), which means it looks like there is a Sudan, but no South Sudan, because there is no data on South Sudan. It suffices to say, I was inspired. I love some data visualization for the sake of data visualization and decided to make my own. Instead of hunger, I used trade. Instead of the weird 3 dimensional bubbles hovering above an unnecessarily precise map I used the more commonsensical solution of a choropleth.
I did still want to use a 3d globe with some information that pops up when you hover over it. R is really not built for these types of interactive web visualizations, so I realized I needed to venture out to Javascript. Specifically I used the Javascript librariesD3.js andglobe.gl. I had not worked with either before, but found great learning resourceshere,here, andhere. My final product also borrows a lot of code and ideas fromcovid3d.live, a great COVID-19 visualization byRobert Soriano.
We see that in China and India are the largest trading partners of Ghana and that South Africa is the largest trading partner within Africa. Gold, Cocoa, and Oil are often the largest export commodity. The largest import commodities vary more from country to country. Who, for example, would have known that fur skin would have been the largest import to Ghana from Tajikistan.
To get the trade data I used theUN Comtrade database. This database summarizes the import and export flows of different goods and services between countries for a given year or even month. TheUN summarizes the database as:
UN COMTRADE is the pseudonym for United Nations International Trade Statistics Database. Over 170 reporter countries/areas provide the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) with their annual international trade statistics data detailed by commodities/service categories and partner countries. These data are subsequently transformed into the United Nations Statistics Division standard format with consistent coding and valuation using the processing system.
The UN COMTRADE is the largest depository of international trade data. It contains well over 3 billion data records since 1962 and is available publicly on the internet. In addition, it offers public and premium data API for easier integration/download.
All commodity values are converted from national currency into US dollars using exchange rates supplied by the reporter countries, or derived from monthly market rates and volume of trade. Quantities, when provided with the reporter country data and when possible, are converted into metric units. Commodities are reported in the current classification and revision (HS 2012 in most cases as of 2016) and are converted all the way down to the earliest classification SITC revision 1."
To project the data on a nice globe, it needs to be in the shape of a shapefile. globe.gl uses .geojson as file types, so I downloaded a shapefile of the world in this format, added my variables and saved it again as .geojson. I usedthis shapefile. I used the explanation inthis GIS Stack Exchange post to transform the data back to the right shapefile.
The next step is to load this data into Javascript and make the visualization. I did this in Visual Studio Code in combination with the live server extension. Nonetheless, this is the Javascript code I used:
To make the code work (loading D3.js and globe.gl), I also added and to this page in the HTML. Finally, to complete the looks of the visualization, I added the following elements to the .css file of the website:
While the United States and the European Union are trying to deprive Russia of access to components used for the needs of the Russian army, Paris, being lenient with Yerevan, is helping to ensure that Moscow has something with which to carry on war in Ukraine.
We are talking about Armenia, which wants to have its cake and eat it too: on the one hand, Yerevan gets out of its way creating the impression of reorientation towards the West, and on the other, it continues to remain a re-export country.
In addition to economic data, the problem of re-export of sanctioned goods through Armenia has been regularly covered for two years by European, American and even Middle Eastern media, including such authoritative ones as Forbes, France 24, Financial Times, Geopolitical Monitor, EUReporter, Newsweek, BNN Breaking, i24Tv, Politico and The Wall Street Journal.
While Washington and Brussels are trying to deprive the Kremlin of access to components used for the needs of the Russian army, Paris, being lenient with Armenia, is helping to ensure that Moscow has weaponry to fight with.
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