Welcome to the Kerbin Exography Society! I realize this is a bit presumptuous for a first post, but I'd like to propose the creation of a Kerbin Exography Society; an informal group of volunteers dedicated to mapping the moons of Kerbin (and when 0.17 is released, the rest of the Kerbol system). I've already done a bit of really cool things with the ISA RAM mapper, such as turning a height map of the mun into a 3D object (I also did minimus and wrote this Hackaday post). With 0.17 coming up, and still no sign of an organized system of collecting exographic data, it only makes sense to form some sort of collective of planetary cartographers to map the Kerbol system. I am aware that there is a Kerbin Geographic and Science Society , but the aim of that seems to be the naming of geographic features. The aim of the Kerbin Exographic Society isn't to name geographic features, only to record them. What we need: We need a few brave souls to make the perilous journey to the mun and minimus for mapping expeditions, with a craft outfitted with the ISA RAM mapper. Unfortunately, the task of completely mapping the entirety of a globe at the resolution provided by the ISA RAM mapper would require several dozen gigabytes of data to be collected but it is still an achievable goal Using camera mods to take low altitude photographs of munar and minimal features - at different angles and lighting positions - will allow the Kerbin Exography Society to construct textures to lay over the height maps generated from the ISA RAM mapper A system or administrators to collect and compile this data into digestible formats And the development of mods to make collecting this data easier I know it's a lot to ask for, but from other kerbalnauts I've talked to there seems to be a lot of interest in mapping and photographing planetary bodies in the Kerbol system. I'm open to any suggestions on how to make this happen, hopefully before 0.17 so all the bugs can be worked out.
