Sky Map Explained
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
External links
Notes and References
- News: James . Temperton . Google Sky Map for Android helps you explore the universe . 2011-11-22 . . Computeractive . 2013-10-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120319150124/http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/download-review/2126796/google-sky-map-android-helps-explore-universe . 2012-03-19.
- News: Edward C. . Baig . Google Sky Map Android app travels through time . 2010-11-17 . . USA Today . 2013-10-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110217100101/https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/google-sky-map-android-app-travels-time/story?id=12177867 . 2011-02-17.
- News: Dj . Walker-Morgan . Google's Sky Map for Android now open source . 2012-01-23 . The H . 2013-10-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131206201504/http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-s-Sky-Map-for-Android-now-open-source-1419779.html . 2013-12-06 . dead .
- News: John . Taylor . Serafini, Kevin . Open-sourcing Sky Map and collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University . 2012-01-20 . Research @ Google . 2013-10-23.
- Web site: stardroid . 2016-03-08 . GitHub.
