Xan wrote: > Follow Richard suggest ;-) : > > >> I am impressed by the interest in OpenMoonMap shown on this list. May >> I suggest that those interested in proceeding with this project move >> the discussion to the talk list? With the broader audience there you >> may find some additional interested parties. >> >> > > I post it the original messages I posted in newb...@openstreepmap.org: > > >> Hi, >> >> Is there any plans to expand openstreetmap to map the universe: the >> solar planets, the constellation, the Moon, etc.? We could have >> _really_ free raw information (only see and official aggencies). >> >> Another time, thanks for the project. >> >> Regards, >> Xan. >> [http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Som%20en%20Xavier] >> > > > In newbies list many people show interest in that project for > cartographying the Moon, Mars, Solar System, and for extension, the > Universe. I think it could be easy to expand openstreetmap to > openuniversmap. I'm a newbee (the original poster) and I have no > technical details avaliable, but you can follow the original thread: > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/newbies/2009-November/004286.html > for this purpose. > > I hope a enough group of people interest that. I could help tagging the > craters, missions of the moon and translate names to catalan and spanish. > While I like the idea quite a bit, I think I will wait for a bit to start mapping for roads and POI on the moon. More seriously, such a map is not really useful as OSM by default is not storing landscape. You will just have a blank map with some name tags if you don't have images in the end. It would be quite useless.
Emilie Laffray
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