[OSM-newbies] OpenMoonMap? / OpenUniverseMap?

[Andre-John Mas]

On 20-Nov-2009, at 00:23, Richard Weait wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Xan <dxpublica at telefonica.net> 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