I'm looking to plot day/night on a Google map, for an arbitrary point in time. I'm familiar with generating map tiles; I'm just looking for an algorithm to tell me whether a particular point on the globe is currently in daylight or darkness, or to otherwise plot the curve of the day/night interface onto the map.
I've done some searching, but it's possible I don't even know enough about the problem domain here to know what terms to search for!
Any ideas? Doesn't have to be perfect -- basically, I'm comparing Flickr geolocation data of sunrise and sunset photos (and their "date taken" timestamps) with reality, and this is to help me visualise it.
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