Interactive 3D World Map (Extended Edition)

Update v2

• basic HTML tags support for texts
• more than 9 spots supported
• not hiding tooltip bug fixed

Description

Interactive 3D Earth is simple 3D world map presentation. It allows to rotate globe by mouse and see, navigate, read texts attached to each spot. You can add any number of spots you want. Each spot is editable, has label and description. Spots are fully editable in XML :

• length of line from sphere surface to spot small sphere
• color of line
• thickness of line
• size of spot sphere
• color of spot sphere
• position of spot (no math is needed to set position!)
• header and text

You can add 3D curves (also editable via XML ):

• spot that curve is starting from
• spot that curve is ending to
• line color
• line thickness
• smooth factor

Moreover, globe is editable via XML too:

• globe size
• earth URL texture
• sphere initial rotation
• sphere mesh quality

XML looks like:

<data>

  <globe segmentsh="16" segmentsw="20" autospin="1" texture="earth.jpg" sphereradius="300" />

  <spots>
    <spot spotx="140" spoty="90" spotradius="10" spotcolor="0xE00000" header="North America" linecolor="0xFFFFFF" linelength="45" linesize="1">North America is ...</spot>

    <spot spotx="218" spoty="188" spotradius="10" spotcolor="0xE00000" header="South America" linecolor="0xFFFFFF" linelength="45" linesize="1">South America is ...</spot>
  </spots>

  <connections>
    <connection thickness="2" toid="1" color="0xFFD0D0" fromid="0" smoothfactor="0.01" />
  </connections>

</data>

Credits: Papervision and GTween are used under MIT license.