On 20-Nov-2009, at 00:23, Richard Weait wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Xan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Richard, I spected for more serious answer ;-). Google has google moon >> and google mars. Now we have privative information of Earth (at least >> cartographic information is copyrighted) but too less privative >> information about the space. It was just a suggestion. > > Dear Xan, > > I apologize. I did take your question seriously and put too much > trying-to-have-some-fun into my reply. > > I have seen Google moon map and I think it is an interesting > curiosity. The possibility of using the OSM stack for a similar crowd > sourced moon map, or other planet is interesting as well. I'm not > aware of anybody currently working on this. > > Perhaps, rather than a map of vector features like OSM, a > crowd-sourced map of telescope photos, similar to Open Aerial Map? If > you find a Moon map or Mars map project interesting, you should do it!
NASA is probably the best sort of this sort of information. The have a grayscale elevation map here: Moon: http://onmoon.jpl.nasa.gov/ Mars: http://onmars.jpl.nasa.gov/ André-John _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
