Very neat! Nice work! Your Twitter app permission list is very excessive tho.
Show HN: Open-source high-res Mars map, in natural colors
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#12Very neat! Nice work! Your Twitter app permission list is very excessive tho.
Oh yea, noted. We'll update it today
Re: Show HN: Open-source high-res Mars map, in natural colors
#13Very neat, but there are only a few places on Mars I recognize well enough to find. It would be good to have a list of points of interest and a way to go to them. There's also a Twitter symbol at one point on the globe; not sure why?
Nice idea! We'll add a feature layer with points of interest.
Clicking the Twitter symbol should show you somebody's tweet on that position. Works in Chrome, and we'll add support for Firefox (soon) which currently blocks it
Re: Show HN: Open-source high-res Mars map, in natural colors
#14Attempting to zoom in or out on my iPhone 12 freezes the site. I’m using Safari.
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#15Attempting to zoom in or out on my iPhone 12 freezes the site. I’m using Safari.
Thanks for the feedback! Added it to the list :) https://github.com/mars-2026/mars26_com/issues/4
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#16Hi HN, we are a small team of space fans who simply wanted a better Mars map. Read about our motivation and process here https://medium.com/mars26/the-most-detailed-mars-map-yet-717... . If you do want to keep up to date, feel free to follow us on Twitter. More features are in the pipeline https://twitter.com/marstwentysix We love PRs and love to hear your feedback on https://github.com/mars-2026/mars26_com ! — Space…
Awesome! Curious if the team has plans or interest in building an open-source high-res map of the Moon as well? Or does Google Moon avoid the low-res shortcomings of Google Mars?
Re: Show HN: Open-source high-res Mars map, in natural colors
#17Is there an actual image of the mars surface somewhere? I poked around the repo but could not find one.
Re: Show HN: Open-source high-res Mars map, in natural colors
#18>While Google’s Mars map uses low resolution images taken in the 70’s
Have you checked out Google Earth for Mars? (not Google mars). It provides hi-rise images, and in 3d.
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#19>While Google’s Mars map uses low resolution images taken in the 70’s Have you checked out Google Earth for Mars? (not Google mars). It provides hi-rise images, and in 3d.
Only at Google would;
-Google Earth
-Google Mars
-Google Earth for Mars
...be three things. Just make Google Earth with a planet drop-down.
Edit: seems like this is an option on Google Maps(?)
Re: Show HN: Open-source high-res Mars map, in natural colors
#20Hi HN, we are a small team of space fans who simply wanted a better Mars map. Read about our motivation and process here https://medium.com/mars26/the-most-detailed-mars-map-yet-717... . If you do want to keep up to date, feel free to follow us on Twitter. More features are in the pipeline https://twitter.com/marstwentysix We love PRs and love to hear your feedback on https://github.com/mars-2026/mars26_com ! — Space…
Awesome! Curious if the team has plans or interest in building an open-source high-res map of the Moon as well? Or does Google Moon avoid the low-res shortcomings of Google Mars?
There are great high-res maps of Moon out there already. E.g https://carto.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer3d/index.html Whereas for Mars somehow nobody had worked on it yet. That said, I could see us hosting a similar site for Moon, too!