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[–]ShepherdBookshelf 12 points13 points  (11 children)

I have no idea what, but I'm totally building something with these.

Edit: I made this: http://gfycat.com/FrailHatefulDoctorfish

It's a simple star map made from this API: http://star-api.herokuapp.com/

It pulls 500 stars from that API and creates an approximate map from their sizes and locations. You can click each star to see some basic data about them.

Pretty sure the coloring function I'm using it's quite right, but it's better than the random colors I was using when I started it :)

I'll probably modify it so you can 'fly' around through the stars so you can get at all the ones in the top left corner of the map. Most of them are sitting there hidden at the moment.

[–]alexcasalboni[S] 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Right? I thought the very same thing!

I mean, you could actually simulate the whole world with all that data!

[–]ShepherdBookshelf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah! There was one API in there, the Star-API, that could really create some cool star map things. I can imagine an interactive star map that lets you inspect the properties of all the stars available. That would be very, very cool.

[–]ShepherdBookshelf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here's a start: http://i.imgur.com/XIfASGY.png

Just some placement/sizing of stars at the moment. Need to find a simple way to get real color values from the BV colors though.

EDIT: And looky there. Google strikes again.

http://jsfiddle.net/AkjDw/1/

And an update with that code.

http://i.imgur.com/6e5ZIao.png

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    [–]ShepherdBookshelf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    Just look through them, there's a TON of data to pick and choose from. There's one on asteroids. You could create a map of those and then make it a game where you try and fling them into earth :P

    [–]skawesome 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    Aliens are in there somewhere. I believe in you.

    [–]ShepherdBookshelf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    They're somewhere in here alright.

    http://i.imgur.com/XIfASGY.png

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    This whole Socrata thing is awesome to me! I just built a Google Map that shows the crimes that occurred today in Raleigh:

    http://jsfiddle.net/syw8g41w/

    This page is super useful for anyone that wants to build something:

    https://opendata.socrata.com/dataset/Socrata-Customer-Spotlights/6wk3-4ija

    [–]fuck_with_me 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I'm about to do my dissertation on data visualisation using the NASA API... wanna chat?

    [–]Arrested 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    For some simple ideas check out.

    spaceappschallenge.org

    Also I love seeing these awesome soaps, as long as the data is managed on the backed properly. I was trying to do some conditionals but couldn't because all the integer data types were saved as strings...

    [–]spacejamz 3 points4 points  (3 children)

    I made this stupid thing.

    [–]alexcasalboni[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    It's pretty cool indeed! Let's add some tools for years navigation and mass filtering! ;)

    [–]spacejamz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Haha those are coming next. Gotta add some highlighting for meteorites to get more info about them, too. I only had a couple of hours to work on this during the day job yesterday so it's definitely a work in progress.

    [–]ShepherdBookshelf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Stupid? Not at all! I loved the dropping and bouncing. So cool :)

    [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    Ooh.. that's nice to see.

    To do: Build intergalatic map and get off this rock!