# sorting order: from north to south
# Lat    Long
 061.47   023.78 "philippe"                      # Tampere, .fi
 060.08   025.00 "luc"                           # Helsinki, .fi
 055.75   037.70 "elephantum"                    # Moscow, .ru
 055.57  -003.13 "moray"    align=above          # Edinburgh, .uk
 053.37  -006.50 "paul"     align=above          # Leixlip, .ie
 053.03   008.55 "reenoo"                        # Ganderkesee, .de
 052.44   013.20 "pH5"                           # Berlin, .de
 052.22   006.92 "koen"                          # Enschede, .nl
 052.12   000.07 "pb"       align=right          # Cambridge, .uk
 051.75  -001.25 "grcobb"                        # Oxford, .uk
 051.38  -002.37 "owen"                          # Bath, .uk
 051.30   000.05 "dc"                            # London, .uk
 051.30   000.05 "mallum"   align=below          # East London, .uk
 051.14   006.47 "neal"                          # Düsseldorf, .de
 050.52   008.02 "nils/florian/ole" align=right  # Netphen, .de
 049.24   008.42 "fng_sma"                       # Heidelberg, .de
 048.47   009.12 "colin"                         # Stuttgart, .de
 045.47   003.05 "pierre"                        # Clermont-Ferrand, .fr
 045.16  -093.32 "unknown26"                     # Minneapolis, .us
 043.53  -005.67 "jsmanrique"                    # Gijón, .es
 042.14  -071.48 "jamey/jg"                      # Cambridge, MA, .us 
 041.38   002.18 "wizly"                         # Barcelona, .es
 041.12   016.87 "bedboi"                        # Bari, .it
 040.26  -079.59 "mccarthy"                      # Pittsburgh, PA, .us
 040.20  -008.42 "spung"                         # Coimbra, .pt
 032.08   034.76 "ED"                            # Tel Aviv, .il
-034.56   138.36 "mibus"                         # Adelaide, .au

# some reference points:
# 070.40   023.42 "Hammerfest"
#-033.56   018.28 "Cape Town"

# Get location info from 
#    http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html
# ("decimal degrees")
#
# Get the earth image from http://flatplanet.neurofractal.org/getmap.cgi?earthmap_hires.jpg
# or maybe http://flatplanet.sourceforge.net/maps/images/earthmap_hires.jpg
#
# Run: 
#   xplanet -window -config xplanet.config  -pango -font="Bitstream Vera Sans" -fontsize 7 -geometry 800x400 -projection rectangular -output images/people.png -num_times 1
#   xplanet -radius 170 -window -projection orthographic -lat 049.00 -lon 015.00 -config xplanet.config  -pango -font "Bitstream Vera Sans" -fontsize 7 -geometry 600x400 -output images/people_eu.png -num_times 1