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Inspired by this post Drawing the Celestial Sphere with Tikz Package (see the solution at the very bottom, which compiles OK) I tried to complile some similar plots that build on ps-map3d (see ps-map3d and examples with code). In particular, I used the MWE from the book: Herbert Voss, PSTricks, 2016, p. 538, which I paste here:

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf,pst-map3d}

\begin{document}


\definecolor{BlueDark}{cmyk}{1,1,0,0.5}
%
\newpsstyle{Globe}{circles=true,gridmap=true,daynight=false}
\newpsstyle{night}{fillstyle=solid,fillcolor=BlueDark,linecolor=BlueDark,
opacity=0.8}
\psset{Radius=5,Decran=100,Dobs=100,unit=0.5,path=pst-geo/data}
%
\begin{pspicture}(-7,-7)(7,7)
\psframe*linecolor=BlueDark(7,7)
%
\psRandomStarlinecolor=yellow!50,randomPoints=100(7,7){\psframe(-7,-7)(7,7)}
%
\psGlobeTellurehour=10,Day=1,Month=10,Year=2010{Berlin}
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}

From this post pst news 2019, p.4: Error message I got that I had to add to the MWE \usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}, to avoid error messages. Further, the MWE should be compiled with pdflatex --shell-escape file.tex. The compilation finishes, but generates no output. The log file shows a problem with ghostscript (???).

Error: /undefined in .setopacityalpha
....
GPL Ghostscript 9.54.0: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
system returned with code 256
PDFCROP 1.40, 2020/06/06 - Copyright (c) 2002-2020 by Heiko Oberdiek, Oberdiek Package Support Group.

!!! Warning: Empty Bounding Box is returned by Ghostscript!
!!!   Page 1: 0 0 0 0
!!! Either there is a problem with the page or with Ghostscript.
!!! Recovery is tried by embedding the page in its original size.

Another smaller MWE from the same book (also p. 538) gives the same error:

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf,pst-map3d}

\begin{document}
\psset{unit=0.5,path=pst-geo/data}
\begin{pspicture}(-7,-7)(7,7) \WorldMapThreeD \end{pspicture}\quad
\begin{pspicture}(-7,-7)(7,7) \WorldMapThreeD[RotX=10,RotY=-40] \end{pspicture}
\end{document}

I am using TeX Live 2020/Debian on Ubuntu 21.10.

Unfortunately, I do not have the competencies to figure out what the problem is. But I would really like to use this package, given the very nice figures it produces.

Thanks a lot for your help.

scfrank
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I can provide the solution already myself: compile with xelatex file.tex

It is ok to just use \usepackage{pst-geo}, no need for auto-pst-pdf and shell escape.

The command \psRandomStar from the first MWE I could not get to work, I assume it is not in the pst-geo package. Apart from this, very nice figures.

scfrank
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