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Oh yes. The other obvious organization to approach is Google itself. They have no shortage of programmers!

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I actually did send them a note on their "business proposal" input form. There aren't many channels that we mere peasants can use to reach a programmer on their site, but that seemed like the best choice among the few choices available.

It also seems like it would be right up their alley. Someone at Google must have an Astronomy fetish:

http://www.google.com/mars/
http://www.google.com/moon/

This would be the ideal solution since it is their code I'm using. A thorough treatment by Google would probably make it much faster & more stable -- not to mention the added exposure that the light pollution issue would receive.

It's too bad that the map layer I'm using is a one-off thing. It was obtained for a research paper (http://www.inquinamentoluminoso.it/cinzano/download/0108052.pdf) & is not being updated, but in principle these maps could be updated each year without much trouble. Perhaps if a larger site like Google got involved, that might actually happen.

-Jon

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