Comment 4 for bug 700586

Okay, I have played around with the ODS spreadsheet, and manually updating Blender to create a few different map animations. This is actually very cool! My plan is to move all the ODS calculations into a Python script, and expose the settings on the 3D Animation screen in OpenShot.

However, I am not planning on making an easy "Location dropdown" with lots of pre-defined places. I think for version 1, a simple Starting LAT and LONG and ending LAT and LONG should work just fine. It requires a bit of work to figure out the coordinates, but simplifies the programming.

The only outstanding question is related to licensing of the world map images. Are we allowed to use these images in a GPLv3 application?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Whole_world_-_land_and_oceans_12000.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/WorldMap-A_non-Frame.png