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Re: Show HN: A simple CLI tool to generate satellite images of a location

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Post by plant99 »

ngcc_hk wrote: post #43

Interesting. Take quite some time to install. And some images are great like `felicette -l "New York" Some totally blank (real time and dark) felicette -l "Hong Kong" Some not sure as a bit random like those of Three Gorges Dam using ``` felicette -c 109.5568 31.0390 felicette -c 111.003761 30.823748 felicette -c 110.25 30.95 ``` One has coloured and the other not sure. I guess this is part of being satellite images?

Hmm. Weird, maybe faulty data for some row/path(s).

I'm checking on this, thanks for reporting this. Meanwhile, could you please raise this as an issue on the repository?

Re: Show HN: A simple CLI tool to generate satellite images of a location

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Post by plant99 »

Goji452 wrote: post #47

I'm used to writing latitude first when writing coordinates so I couldn't get the tool to find any images for a while. Other than that neat tool

Oh yes haha, I feel you. I'm using some amazing libraries as dependencies, created by 'Mapbox'. Now you know why it's (lon, lat) ^^

And thanks for checking it out!

Re: Show HN: A simple CLI tool to generate satellite images of a location

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Post by fr3dzW1F3 »

doersino wrote: post #17

This is neat! I’ve built something similar, although my tool can pull its data from any service that supports tile indexing via the Web Mercator Transform (e.g. Google Maps, OSM, basically every online mapping service): https://github.com/doersino/aerialbot Its original purpose is the creation of Twitter bots like the ones liked below, but it works well for grabbing detailed satellite maps of arbitrary areas. https:/…

Ha hacker my old fortnite account mah_spider2011

Re: Show HN: A simple CLI tool to generate satellite images of a location

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Post by rkda »

plant99 wrote: post #15
secondo wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neat project! The example photos in Drive are a bit wonky on mobile and only one of the files is accessible. Consider adding a few example photos in the readme. What’s the licensing and usage rights of the produced images?

Right, thanks for the feedback. They are 16bits JPEGs, thus the large file sizes. And the images are generated in your system with the data from a public source. Not sure who owns the copyright to them. ^^

App seems to be using Landsat data. There should be no restrictions on its use.

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/are-there-any-restrictions-use-or-...

Re: Show HN: A simple CLI tool to generate satellite images of a location

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Post by perennate »

DenisM wrote: post #41

On a tangent, but any suggestions for a tool to stitch up drone aerial imagery and use it as a map? Preferably on the phone/tablet.

https://www.opendronemap.org/

Works quite well. Input images must have geo data in the exif metadata like longitude, latitude, FOV, camera pitch (most drones e.g. Autel and DJI drones will include this). You need to set it up on a server, then it's a web app which you could access from a phone/tablet but it involves uploading the images so it probably won't work well like that.

Re: Show HN: A simple CLI tool to generate satellite images of a location

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Post by perennate »

plant99 wrote: post #31
kingofpandora wrote: post #19

A couple of comments... > TL;DR: Generate JPEG earth imagery from a location's name/coordinates It downloads imagery. At first I thought this was a project to simulate satellite imagery from OSM data or something. > This tool is for a sentient being who wants to view high-res satellite imagery of earth Landsat is what 30 meters-per-pixel? That's not high-resolution.

> It downloads imagery. At first I thought this was a project to simulate satellite imagery from OSM data or something. Will update the README, thanks for pointing it out. > Landsat is what 30 meters-per-pixel? That's not high-resolution. With the panchromatic band, we can get 15m resolution. But you're right with the fact that one can get images with better resolution on any commercial platforms. But even OpenMapTil…

NAIP has 1 m/pixel imagery, only over US.

Re: Show HN: A simple CLI tool to generate satellite images of a location

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Post by kanobo »

TuringNYC wrote: post #58
kanobo wrote: post #34

https://imgur.com/a/dKc2OlG - The example images for those who don't have want to download a 40mb image or don't use google drive

What are the two variations? One looks like a regular image, is the 2nd an IR band?

Yes, RGB and CIR. Btw, all the top nav links in the dochuddle site in your bio are broken and don't do anything.

Re: Show HN: A simple CLI tool to generate satellite images of a location

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Post by jedberg »

Hitton wrote: post #26

Off-topic but slightly related, so I'll just post it here in comments. I've recently discovered pretty cool telnet server. Map in telnet: telnet mapscii.me

That was super cool! They really get all the details.

At first I couldn't figure out how to zoom in. I pressed all they keys. Then I accidentally moved the mouse over the window and it zoomed in.

So my first thought was, "how the heck do they capture the mouse in the terminal!".

Then I exited out of it by killing telnet, and noticed that my terminal was still capturing my mouse input! Just moving the mouse over the terminal put ASCII codes on the command line.

What is this sorcery?

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