Sky Map
Sky Map is an Android planetarium software application.[2][3]
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Sky Map in use on a Nexus One
History
Sky Map was designed and developed by a group of Google engineers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as part of their 20% time.[4]
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.[5]
See also
- Google Sky
- Planetarium software
- Stellarium
- Star chart - map of the night sky
References
- "Release 1.9.2". 1 October 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- 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.
- 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.
- Walker-Morgan, Dj (2012-01-23). "Google's Sky Map for Android now open source". The H. Archived from the original on 2013-12-06. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
- Taylor, John; Serafini, Kevin (2012-01-20). "Open-sourcing Sky Map and collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University". Research @ Google. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
- "stardroid". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
External links
- Sky Map on Google Play
- Sky Map at GitHub
- Sky Map Android package at the F-Droid repository
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