Summary
The world is your canvas. Searchable sharable satellite art.
Yorbit was created at Space Apps Kansas City as a way to search, personalize, and share the stunning photographs captured by NASA satellites orbiting high above Earth. Searching by date and image, users can choose images from unique maps and write message on the image to share using social media or email. This project solves the Earth As Art challenge.
What is Space Apps?
The International Space Apps Challenge is a two-day hackathon where teams of technologists, scientists, designers, artists, educators, entrepreneurs, developers and students across the globe collaborate and engage with publicly available data to design innovative solutions for global challenges.
Links
2014 NASA Space Apps Challenge Page
My Contribution
I volunteered to help a randomly chosen team compete in the 2014 NASA Space Apps Challenge on a project called Yorb.it. I was the team's main Web Page Developer concentrating on the mechanics of integrating our code with both the GIBS (Global Imagery Browse Services) API and Google's Maps API to bring the functionality together.