Cites of the Earth 3D Screensaver

Created cities.txt file in the same folder where the screensaver resides.
Added my home city Spokane Washington
Does not show up.

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• Cities of Earth 3D screensaver

Paul yelk1 month agoWindows 10 x64, Firefox

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• Hi Paul,

  Seems to be working here. I think the line in cities.txt should probably be this:

  Spokane;United States;0.23;47.66;-117.43;Pacific Standard Time;

  Corresponding to the City Record format described here.

  What does your cities.txt currently look like?

  Rob (Screensavers Planet)1 month ago

• This is what the only line in the cities.txt file looks like:

  Spokane;Washington;0.3;47.73;117.44;Pacific Standard Time

  I just realized my city is probably there, but I forgot the minus!

  Fixed it and my city is now showing1

  Only question now is why does the earth rotate backwards?

  Shouldn't it rotate from east to west rather than west to east?

  Thanks.

  Paul Yelk1 month ago

• That probably put Spokane somewhere in Inner Mongolia, China :-)

  As for the rotation, I suspect it's not so much planet Earth that we see rotating but that it's the viewpoint that changes. We're flying around Earth, as it were.

  Glad you got it sorted! Enjoy the screensaver.

  Rob (Screensavers Planet)1 month ago

• So far enjoying it.

  I haven't looked to see where Spokane originally ended up.

  Paul Yelk1 month ago

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