Sidenote: Planet presented on Google Cloud Next 2017 keynote today: https://youtu.be/h9FSqVbdHis?t=8109 They told that they use Google Cloud Platform to store 7+ PB of data and upload 7 TB daily with a hockey-stick growth trajectory. Personally their mini satellites were my favorite part. Disclaimer: I work for Google.
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#22" 2016 PLANET LABS INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED."
It's 2017, update your website footer! http://updateyourfooter.com/
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#23The ToS that you're presented with upon signing up is pretty absurd. It requires you to commit to providing feedback "on a regular basis of not less than once each week during the Beta term", and to creating "a written evaluation of the functionality, performance, usability, and stability of the Beta Site and documentation provided." It also prohibits you from linking to the site or disclosing any information about i…
Well did you agree to them? I think you can share as long as you didn't agree.
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#24Javascript errors are preventing any interaction with the website for me.
Curious what browser/OS you're on. There is also a form for submitting feedback here: https://planetexplorer.typeform.com/to/frytMa
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#25Quite off-topic, but that made me think of a project I wish I'll live to see implemented. I'm sure it will be done by someone eventually, though it's probably too difficult right now. I'm talking about a whole-world representation of paleontological knowledge. It'd be a simulation of the world with all known species. There would be a time slider that would span through all eons. On large scales we could see continental drift and on short scales we could see procedurally generated simulations of plants and animals with basic behavior (like hunting, grazing, circadian rythms, reproduction and so on...). It would make it possible to see evolution going on, generations after generations.
I don't think it's totally unfeasible in this century. We already have video games with procedurally generated planets that include flora and fauna (No Man's Sky is a famous example, but I believe Elite Dangerous wants to do something like that eventually). So it will be similar, only it would be based on actual scientific data.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't represent planet, but you have better luck with a question that's narrowed a bit. For instance, who are you?
What an odd response. I think it's a perfectly reasonable question to ask. Why does it matter who the asker is?
Maybe planet.com only sell their imagery datasets to companies?! That's what came to my mind with GP asking "who are you?" probably meaning something like "who do you represent?"..
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#28Wonder how long they'll get away with using a variation on the lonely planet logo? https://www.google.com/search?q=lonely+planet&tbm=isch
You mean, how much longer they can have a circle as the main part of their logo?
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#29The ToS that you're presented with upon signing up is pretty absurd. It requires you to commit to providing feedback "on a regular basis of not less than once each week during the Beta term", and to creating "a written evaluation of the functionality, performance, usability, and stability of the Beta Site and documentation provided." It also prohibits you from linking to the site or disclosing any information about i…
Sounds like typical closed beta ToS.
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#30Quite off-topic, but that made me think of a project I wish I'll live to see implemented. I'm sure it will be done by someone eventually, though it's probably too difficult right now. I'm talking about a whole-world representation of paleontological knowledge. It'd be a simulation of the world with all known species. There would be a time slider that would span through all eons. On large scales we could see continent…
You should have a look at GPlates: https://www.gplates.org/ It comes with a default dataset that will get you part way there as far as the raw data goes.
There are also several paid mobile apps that add more "nice-looking" overlays (e.g. Interactive Earth).
Of course, for the paleogeography, you're referring to something much broader and more difficult, but somewhat similar things are done to create paleotopographical reconstructions. I've only seen those sold by vendors, though, so I don't think any of them are public.
Ron Blakey's paleography is a classic example of something not too dissimilar, as well: https://www2.nau.edu/rcb7/globaltext2.html It was made back in the late 90's/early 2000's and has been expanded on since, but it's something of a manual version.