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

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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.

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

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Felicette is a dead-simple CLI tool which searches, downloads, generates, and visualizes satellite imagery in the form of RGB jpegs, taking inputs in the form of location's name or coordinates. It also has options to visualize CIR vegetation data.

Seems nice but sends you to dependency hell when you try to install on Ubuntu.

On 18.04, it can't find the correct openvc On 19.04, same things On 20.04, the repo doesn't include config for 20.04

Would love to try it, but ...

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

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Felicette was the first cat launched into space on 18 October 1963 as part of the French Space Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9licette Definition of felicette https://github.com/plant99/felicette

That is included in the readme

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

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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 is really neat, thanks for the share. I am amazed at how much detail they managed to include as you zoom in.

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

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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:/…

This is awesome! I'd go through the code as well in a bit, but the twitter bots are really amazing.

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

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Felicette is a dead-simple CLI tool which searches, downloads, generates, and visualizes satellite imagery in the form of RGB jpegs, taking inputs in the form of location's name or coordinates. It also has options to visualize CIR vegetation data.

Seems nice but sends you to dependency hell when you try to install on Ubuntu. On 18.04, it can't find the correct openvc On 19.04, same things On 20.04, the repo doesn't include config for 20.04 Would love to try it, but ...

Very weird, can you raise an issue with some logs, I'd love to take a look at them and see what went wrong. Thanks for looking into the tool.

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

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Looks like a great tool, but its dependencies are sufficiently complex to warrant a Dockerfile. This way it would be very clear what the dependencies are independent of how the host system is configured.

Thanks for the feedback, I agree with you on this. I'll add this to the to-do list.
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