# mmcloughlin/globe

Globe wireframe visualizations in Golang

Repository: https://github.com/mmcloughlin/globe
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/globe
Homepage: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/mmcloughlin/globe
Language: Go
License: ISC
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-02-09T19:29:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3349, "days_push": 936, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1595, forks 49 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:09.033098+00:00)

## What it is
A Go library for rendering wireframe globe visualizations as PNG images, backed by the pinhole 3D camera library. It supports drawing graticules, land/country boundaries, dots, lines, and rectangles at geographic coordinates.

## Use cases
- render a wireframe globe image in Go
- plot lat/lng points on a globe
- draw great circle lines between coordinates
- visualize geographic data as PNG
- draw country boundaries on a globe
- center a globe rendering on a specific location

## When to choose
- you need programmatic globe/map images from Go code
- you want lightweight PNG output without a GUI or web server
- you're plotting point or line geographic data on an orthographic projection

## When to avoid
- you need interactive or web-based maps (use Leaflet, Mapbox, etc.)
- you need full GIS capabilities or map tiles
- you need animations or real-time rendering

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: data-visualization, graphics, geospatial
- domain: data-visualization, graphics
- platform: go, cross-platform
- tags: globe, wireframe, png, graticule, geographic-visualization, 3d-projection, maps

## Member repositories
- mmcloughlin/globe (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:09.033098+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:54:07.937964+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mmcloughlin/globe (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:09.033098+00:00, sha 8184982ede8a)
  - homepage: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/mmcloughlin/globe (fetched 2026-08-29T11:24:52.565693+00:00, sha 5cc3b323a01e)
  - site_page: https://pkg.go.dev/about (fetched 2026-08-29T11:24:52.574942+00:00, sha 757852027879)
  - site_page: https://go.dev/project (fetched 2026-08-29T11:24:52.576898+00:00, sha d5ca00bb378b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.