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Re: Planet Explorer Beta

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Post by mbrookes »

personjerry wrote: post #28
mbrookes wrote: post #6

Wonder 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?

Not everyone has an eye for graphic design, so if you can't see the that the resemblance is more than just "a circle as part of their logo", that's understandable.

If you need a tool to help, take a look at the google image search for "lonely planet". Their image matching algorithm thinks planet's logo is related to lonely planet's.

Re: Planet Explorer Beta

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Post by sand500 »

alpb wrote: post #21

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.

They just bought Terra Bella too so they have a bunch more data from that.

Re: Planet Explorer Beta

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Post by Bjartr »

teraflop wrote: post #18

The 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…

Be a useful beta tester or give up your right to use the beta.

Re: Planet Explorer Beta

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Post by gjem97 »

jventura wrote: post #26
gjem97 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?"..

Right, the old "how much you got?" pricing scheme.

Re: Planet Explorer Beta

#35

Post by stagbeetle »

mbrookes wrote: post #31
personjerry wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean, how much longer they can have a circle as the main part of their logo?

Not everyone has an eye for graphic design, so if you can't see the that the resemblance is more than just "a circle as part of their logo", that's understandable. If you need a tool to help, take a look at the google image search for "lonely planet". Their image matching algorithm thinks planet's logo is related to lonely planet's.

It's uncannily resemblant.

Re: Planet Explorer Beta

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Post by mbrookes »

kolemcrae wrote: post #22

" 2016 PLANET LABS INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED." It's 2017, update your website footer! http://updateyourfooter.com/

You're probably getting down-voted because (aside from the off-topic comment) that isn't how copyright works. In most cases copyright starts from the time the work is created, and lasts for a specific period of time (Disney-style exceptions notwithstanding), whether copyright is explicitly declared or not.

The copyright notice only serves (informally) to indicate the start-point for this time.

Re: Planet Explorer Beta

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Post by kanbara »

lucb1e wrote: post #11
spdy wrote: post #2

Someone want to explain? It does not look free what is it useful for? Looks like Google Maps with a timeslider.

> Looks like Google Maps with a timeslider. It's OpenStreetMap-based though, as far as I can tell (there is no attribution to either, but data is loaded from MapBox which I think only provides OSM).

If you click the info (i) in the bottom-right, you'll see that the basemaps are from OSM and MapBox but the raster satellite imagery is from Planet's satellite constellation.

Re: Planet Explorer Beta

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Post by vm »

Bjartr wrote: post #33
teraflop wrote: post #18

The 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…

Be a useful beta tester or give up your right to use the beta.

S/he brings up a useful point of understanding the ToS. What if the next iOS and Android require my location be constantly shared with third parties? I would lose privacy or have to go without a smartphone which is freakishly hard in today's modern world.

Obviously that's a hypothetical but I appreciate anyone who pushes back on digital rights given how deep we are in the civic/digital rights gray zone.

Re: Planet Explorer Beta

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Post by tradersam »

vm wrote: post #38
Bjartr wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be a useful beta tester or give up your right to use the beta.

S/he brings up a useful point of understanding the ToS. What if the next iOS and Android require my location be constantly shared with third parties? I would lose privacy or have to go without a smartphone which is freakishly hard in today's modern world. Obviously that's a hypothetical but I appreciate anyone who pushes back on digital rights given how deep we are in the civic/digital rights gray zone.

> have to go without a smartphone which is freakishly hard in today's modern world.

Totally off-topic but sometimes I find it unnerving how hard it is to spend a week without any type of mobile device. People look at you like you're insane.

Re: Planet Explorer Beta

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Post by JoshTriplett »

vm wrote: post #38
Bjartr wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be a useful beta tester or give up your right to use the beta.

S/he brings up a useful point of understanding the ToS. What if the next iOS and Android require my location be constantly shared with third parties? I would lose privacy or have to go without a smartphone which is freakishly hard in today's modern world. Obviously that's a hypothetical but I appreciate anyone who pushes back on digital rights given how deep we are in the civic/digital rights gray zone.

> What if the next iOS and Android require my location be constantly shared with third parties? I would lose privacy or have to go without a smartphone which is freakishly hard in today's modern world.

Or run Replicant or similar, which would assuredly continue to offer the option of preserving your privacy. (It's somewhat less convenient, and limits your selection of devices, but it's an option.)

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