The African continent, by country, with 3D relief, landscape texturing and animations! Formats available: .max, .obj and .c4d.
Country’s level of detail depends on it’s size. Maps used are courtesy of NASA Visible Earth, an extraordinary collection of high-resolution images of earth: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ The map projection used is the equirectangular projection. (for details see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections)
“Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” (Gustave Flaubert)