{"id":63,"date":"2004-11-01T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/?p=13"},"modified":"2021-10-30T20:06:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T20:06:19","slug":"osxplanet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/osxplanet\/","title":{"rendered":"OSXplanet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in June, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/2004\/06\/04#Ultra10\">posted on getting an Ultra 10<\/a> and commented on the lack of a freeware program today comparable to XEarth back in the day. Well, awhile back, I finally found one that has a beautiful display of earth with the option to download current cloud maps and locations of storms. The application is called <a href=\"http:\/\/otte.ucsc.edu\/~gabriel\/osxplanet.html\">OSXplanet<\/a>, and it&#8217;s a GUI wrapper by Gabriel Otte of an open source project called <a href=\"http:\/\/xplanet.sourceforge.net\/\">Xplanet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing you notice when starting the app is how nice the imagery of the earth is.  The texture used to map on the earth has a fairly high resolution, so it looks great even on large monitors.  The option to download storm locations made tracking the recent hurricane season easy.  It&#8217;s also cool to watch storms cross the US in the cloud map.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/mike\/powerbook\/eclipse_20041003.jpg\">screenshot<\/a> of it running on my Powerbook (covered slightly by a couple of other apps).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in June, I posted on getting an Ultra 10 and commented on the lack of a freeware program today comparable to XEarth back in the day. Well, awhile back, I finally found one that has a beautiful display of earth with the option to download current cloud maps and locations of storms. The application [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-macintosh","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}