Inkscaping a Globe with latitude, longitudes.

I wanted to have a globe with those latitudes & longitudes on it.I was doing it manually earlier by duplicating and resizing, but there's the clone tool to do that easily. Here is a tutorial on how to do a simple globe with latitude/longitude. I have a very bad color sense so you can surely do a better job with colors. :)
Here is what we can have



1) draw a perfect circle (holding ctrl key) with no fill and black stroke.
2) Now we need to do some cloning.
Select the circle and go to edit-->clone-->create tiled clones.
Select 'simple translation' for symmetry and following settings for shift and scale.

3) We will get something like this.
Now select them all and go to edit-->clone-->unlink clone (or shift+alt+D)

4) Now draw a straight line from top center to bottom center to get the equator / meridian.
5) Now duplicate this and do object-->rotate 90 degree.
We have the latitude & longitudes. Now select these and go to path-->combine.

6) Now lets get back to the original circle give it a radial gradient.
And place the latitude/longitude globe over it. ( Use align and distribute tool to center the circles)
7) You can also give a radial gradient to the latitude/longitudes, to get something like this.
8) Now you can write something at the center of the globe with bezier tool using the latitude/longitude as a grid.
9) Now select these letters and move sideways for editing. Give them a color fill and remove the stroke.

10) Do a path--> union of these letters and apply path-->simplify.
11) Give the text some suitable color, do some resizing(decrease height holding shift) and place it over the globe.

Further you can do things like giving the text or the globe a shadow effect etc like the one by heathenx here.



[ Edit: Stumbled upon this youtube video. Its really cool how you can build up on the globe layout... though its pretty tough to draw ]
The whole how-to in PNG format is available at deviantArt here. Happy Inkscaping.