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As far as I searched, I couldn't find any library for drawing 3d world charts. The first answer at this post shows a workaround using a pst-map3d package. Isn't it possible to get similar result using tikz?

Brasil
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    I just did a google picture search for site:tex.stackexchange.com tikz world map and got e.g. https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/183138/121799 and many more. How about you do this search, click on promising pics, select the one that comes closest to your needs, start modifying it and if you get stuck use that as an MWE? –  Nov 17 '18 at 16:25
  • Hi, @marmot. I found that amazing picture too. I specifically want to draw the spherical Earth but need to be able to rotate it to show specific continents. – Brasil Nov 17 '18 at 17:45
  • Yes, but in this answer it is explicitly written: "You can repeat the same steps starting from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BlankMap-World6.svg to get a World map." Did you try this? –  Nov 17 '18 at 17:46
  • This world map is 2d. I need a 3d one. – Brasil Nov 17 '18 at 17:50
  • Yet @samcarter shared this with me. (I did not check whether this is done somewhere, but I also feel that you should be the one who searches for previous related answers, select the most promising one, try to modify them to your needs, and if you get stuck a ask a more specific question. Of course, you might be lucky and someone does everything for you, but there is no guarantee.) –  Nov 17 '18 at 17:55
  • Hi, @marmot. I just edited my question leaving only the issue about 3d charts (since you reminded a beautifull link on the 2d option). However I dont't believe my question is that much specific. I just wondered that there could be a tikz library on the world globe, because its pictures are very common almost everywhere. Many books and webpages brings world globe focusing a desired portion. I jus wold like to have access to such kind of drawing, if tikz has it. – Brasil Nov 17 '18 at 18:09
  • You mean, has someone already done all the work of creating a database of lattitudes and longitudes for points along coasts and borders? Given that, it is pretty easy to generate a globe. – John Kormylo Nov 17 '18 at 18:56
  • Maybe http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-physical-vectors/ will help. – John Kormylo Nov 17 '18 at 18:58
  • @JohnKormylo that's exactly I what I mean. I know it is a hard work, but there are much more hard work (even harder) done and available elsewhere. That's why I thought the world globe would also be available. :) – Brasil Nov 17 '18 at 19:40

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