Sky Map

Sky Map
Developer(s) Google
Carnegie Mellon University
Operating system Android
Type Planetarium software
License APL 2.0
Website github.com/sky-map-team/stardroid
Sky Map in use on a Nexus One

Sky Map is an Android planetarium software application.[1][2]

History

Sky Map was designed and developed by a group of Google engineers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as part of their 20% time.[3]

It's now "donated and open-sourced".

Licensing

On January 20, 2012, Google announced a student development partnership with Carnegie Mellon University and released Sky Map under the Apache 2.0 open source license.[4]

Code

The project is presently available in the form of a GitHub repository.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Temperton, James (2011-11-22). "Google Sky Map for Android helps you explore the universe". Computeractive. Incisive Media. Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
  2. ↑ Baig, Edward C. (2010-11-17). "Google Sky Map Android app travels through time". USA Today. ABC News. Archived from the original on 2011-02-17. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
  3. ↑ Walker-Morgan, Dj (2012-01-23). "Google's Sky Map for Android now open source". The H. Archived from the original on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
  4. ↑ Taylor, John; Serafini, Kevin (2012-01-20). "Open-sourcing Sky Map and collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University". Research @ Google. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
  5. ↑ "stardroid". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-03-08.


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