Sky Map on Glass + Continent outlines

[Matthew Dockrey]

I just finished making a version of Sky Map for Google Glass. It's a quick and dirty hack, mostly just an experiment to get into Android dev. Mostly it was just a matter of changing the options menu to be usable on that very limited interface.

Possibly more interestingly, I also added a new layer that shows the outlines of the continents. I won't claim that's a very useful thing, but I've always wanted to know what it would look like if the Earth was transparent. Now I've seen it! The latlon -> celestial coordinate transformation is done in GeocentricCoordinates.java, which might have value to other people's projects. Adding, say, the location of friends based on Latitude (or whatever replaces it) would be fun, for instance.

Source code and APK here: https://github.com/attoparsec/Sky-Map-Glass

[Harshad RJ]

I don't have Glass, but this sounds very cool. Kudos!

Is there a way to screencast for the rest of us?

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Harshad RJ

[Matthew Dockrey]

I put up a video captured from screencast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA588AGT4AQ

The frame rate isn't the best, unfortunately, but you can get the idea.

[Michael Kosowsky]

Very nice.

I posted some patches a year or so ago at http://www.heywhatsthat.com/stardroid/horizon-patch which will add the actual horizon (e.g. bumps rather than a flat line) and the names of mountains to the display. I believe the SkyMap code has changed since then, so if you try it and the patches fail, please let me know.