Earth at Night Gadget and Mapplet
A Google Map overlay showing global city lights, precisely correlated to the base map. A striking illustration of population densities, energy usage, and light pollution worldwide.
Want your own Earth at Night map?
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Add it to your
home page
- Overlay it on Google's My Maps
- Or, get the code for including the gadget on any other web page
Technical Note
This gadget is interesting to programmers for being a cross-API implementation: both the Google Gadgets and Mapplets platforms are supported from the same source. Not only is this preferable from a software-engineering standpoint, it avoids duplication in the Google directory, which is shared between the two APIs.
Interested in doing your own cross-API map gadget? Here's a template outlining my approach.