| Sky-Map.org | |
| Commercial: | No |
| Type: | Web mapping |
| Language: | Multilingual |
| Registration: | Yes |
| Current Status: | Active |
Sky-Map.org (or WikiSky.org) is a wiki and interactive sky map that covers over half a billion known celestial bodies.[1] WikiSky is designed, in part, as a wiki. As such users can edit information about different stars by writing articles, adding Internet links, uploading images, or creating a special interest group for a specific task.[2] [3]
The website, although still available for users to visit, has shown little activity since 2010. Significant amounts of vandalism by adding unrecognized proper names to stars exist and are still occurring as of now.
Wikisky can represents the sky with several surveys, including GALEX, DSS, and SDSS. In either mode, the user can access the name and a brief description of visible space objects. This can be used to access more detailed information, including articles and different photo images. It also has its own API so that code can be written to access maps, objects’ information and SDSS data.
Some images from Wikisky, such as Digitized Sky Survey (DSS2), are "non-commercial use".[4] The DSS data rights are held by multiple institutions.[5] Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) images are now in the public domain, although earlier data releases were for non-commercial use only.[6] Images from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Spitzer Space Telescope (infrared), or GALEX space telescope (ultraviolet) are "PD-NASA-USgov".