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Image 1 — Two satellite tracking map faces: Grountrack and Groundtrack Fuller
Image 2 — Two satellite tracking map faces: Grountrack and Groundtrack Fuller
Image 3 — Two satellite tracking map faces: Grountrack and Groundtrack Fuller
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Two satellite tracking map faces: Grountrack and Groundtrack Fuller

I made a couple Pebble watchfaces called Groundtrack and Groundtrack Fuller, and figured y'all might get a kick out of them.

The idea was basically a little love letter to old maps, aeronautical charts, mission control displays, and weird projection systems, while still making the whole thing "useful."

You can track the Sun, Moon, ISS, GPS satellites, and a bunch of other stuff. The part I really wanted to play with was making the track become the watchface**.** Time gets laid out along the path, so reading it feels a little more like reading an instrument or an old chart.

Groundtrack uses more conventional chart and plotboard views. Groundtrack Fuller gets weirder. It uses a Buckminster Fuller style icosahedral map and basically rolls the map along the object's path, so the geography rearranges itself around the track instead of the track constantly running into cuts in the map.

Groundtrack: https://apps.repebble.com/4cb497d2805d4b0b87d70876

Groundtrack Fuller: https://apps.repebble.com/groundtrack-fuller_7e96e11b99aa4f6fb3ba3928

Source: https://github.com/huntrontrakkr/groundtrack-watch-face

Right now they're Pebble Time 2 only. I do want to make a round version in the future.

Open to feature requests or feedback

u/segfaultgolf — 10 days ago