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Re: Terra Bella

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Post by frisco »

zzleeper wrote: post #19
frisco wrote: post #15

Hold on hold on. This is a big swarm of satellites and (I assume) a forthcoming API and the comments are "the scrolling sucks"? They could have used tables and comic sans for all I care. This is awesome. Though Planet Labs will always be my first affection in this space. Talk about a hard and interesting problem. This data takes you to so many different places.

I still do not know how is this actionable. So, they have satellites that take cool pictures, ok. Are they selling the stuff? Sharing an API?

Whether it's a consumer sale (sign up via web and get an API key) I do not know, but if you have a compelling use I'm sure you can get access by talking to humans. In terms of what you can use it for, I know people have built applications on top of Planet Labs to run queries from counting the number of cars in Walmart parking lots every day for hedge funds to tracking deforestation.

Re: Terra Bella

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Post by RGamma »

taylorwc wrote: post #2

This project is amazing. The site's scrolling should be memorialized in a museum of awful user experiences for posterity's sake.

It gets worse if you browse the web with zoom. At 125% zoom scrolling gets stuck on the third stage for me and imagery is consistently cut off. If you then use the scroll bar all bets are off, and the site very slowly stutters from one random place to the next (not to mention, that there's zero thought put into a graceful fallback when JS is disabled, although with e.g. lynx you at least get to see the site's text instead of just the loading icon).

Re: Terra Bella

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Post by mikestew »

frisco wrote: post #15

Hold on hold on. This is a big swarm of satellites and (I assume) a forthcoming API and the comments are "the scrolling sucks"? They could have used tables and comic sans for all I care. This is awesome. Though Planet Labs will always be my first affection in this space. Talk about a hard and interesting problem. This data takes you to so many different places.

They could have used tables and comic sans, and it would have been an improvement because if nothing else I could have read the content.

As it is, I kind of get the idea...sort of. Something about satellites, imagery, real-time somethingerother. There's complaining about weird scrolling and "broke my back button", which many of us tire of, and then's there's "hi! Didn't know if you noticed, but your site's broken on the most commonly-used browsers, broken to the point that many cannot read what I'm sure is absolutely awesome content." In other words, had this been a marketing page for something people don't give two shites about, the column that holds the abandonment rate in their analytics DB would have to use a float lest the tiny, tiny percentage of people who didn't immediately close the browser tab be recorded as "zero".

So I'll take your word for it when you say it's awesome. Currently, I am not equipped to confirm that with Mac OS X and Safari or Chrome.

Re: Terra Bella

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Post by subie »

S4M wrote: post #9
taylorwc wrote: post #2

This project is amazing. The site's scrolling should be memorialized in a museum of awful user experiences for posterity's sake.

Yep, it's a very ambitious project, but the scrolling is utterly broken for me (firefox 43.0 on Debian), and seeing from other comments, I'm not the only one. Wonder how someone can possibly ship a website where the scrolling is so broken.

Looks wonderful in chrome.

Re: Terra Bella

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Post by egeozcan »

frisco wrote: post #15

Hold on hold on. This is a big swarm of satellites and (I assume) a forthcoming API and the comments are "the scrolling sucks"? They could have used tables and comic sans for all I care. This is awesome. Though Planet Labs will always be my first affection in this space. Talk about a hard and interesting problem. This data takes you to so many different places.

> This is a big swarm of satellites and (I assume) a forthcoming API

How can I know if I can't read the content? I'm not exaggerating - simply not usable.

Re: Terra Bella

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Post by ohitsdom »

frisco wrote: post #15

Hold on hold on. This is a big swarm of satellites and (I assume) a forthcoming API and the comments are "the scrolling sucks"? They could have used tables and comic sans for all I care. This is awesome. Though Planet Labs will always be my first affection in this space. Talk about a hard and interesting problem. This data takes you to so many different places.

Where do you see any info on an API?

Re: Terra Bella

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Post by egeozcan »

subie wrote: post #25
S4M wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, it's a very ambitious project, but the scrolling is utterly broken for me (firefox 43.0 on Debian), and seeing from other comments, I'm not the only one. Wonder how someone can possibly ship a website where the scrolling is so broken.

Looks wonderful in chrome.

Chrome 48, Windows 10. I actually opened the task manager to see if some bg process was torturing the CPU after trying to scroll.
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