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NASA Blue Marble - ESRI World Files (.wld)

NASA Blue Marble

ESRI World Files (.wld) for files from http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=73751

Download the high-resolution images:

wget http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/73000/73751/world.topo.bathy.200407.3x21600x21600.A1.jpg
wget http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/73000/73751/world.topo.bathy.200407.3x21600x21600.A2.jpg
wget http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/73000/73751/world.topo.bathy.200407.3x21600x21600.B1.jpg
wget http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/73000/73751/world.topo.bathy.200407.3x21600x21600.B2.jpg
wget http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/73000/73751/world.topo.bathy.200407.3x21600x21600.C1.jpg
wget http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/73000/73751/world.topo.bathy.200407.3x21600x21600.C2.jpg
wget http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/73000/73751/world.topo.bathy.200407.3x21600x21600.D1.jpg
wget http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/73000/73751/world.topo.bathy.200407.3x21600x21600.D2.jpg

Place them in the same directory as the .wld files bellow.

Drag&drop the files into MapTiler Pro - or use the command line: maptiler -o output *.jpg

Prepared for MapTiler: http://www.maptiler.com/ or other GDAL tools

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