Google has open-sourced the Sky Map app for Android, allowing third party interested developers to learn and contribute to the project. The app was launched in the year 2009 to showcase the capabilities of an Android phone. Though claimed as highly successful by Google, the app isn’t very popular unlike few other mapping software.
“Today, we are delighted to announce that we are going to share Sky Map in a different way: we are donating Sky Map to the community. We are collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University in an exciting partnership that will see further development of Sky Map as a series of student projects. Sky Map’s development will now be driven by the students, with Google engineers remaining closely involved as advisors. Additionally, we have open-sourced the app so that other astronomy enthusiasts can take the code and augment it as they wish.”
“The Google Sky Map team would like to thank all of our users who have taken the time to send us comments over the past 3 years.”
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No. 11 2012 Issue