How did they pick the stations? There are only two in Japan, one of which is playing "I've been Working on the Railroad" in Japanese.
Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe
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#12Developer here. We weren't exactly expecting this to become as popular as it did.. Just survived being #1 on Reddit – sheesh.
It seems our non-profit Bing maps key was revoked.. Switched to Arcgis imagery instead for now. Too bad, the Bing imagery was really great.
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#13As it appears to me (running Chrome on Linux) it's really hard to go looking for a particular location, since it's just dots on a solid blue browser tab. Is that by design? (Also, it shows stations in Madrid, Spain at a spot that I think is a bit west of Ames, Iowa.)
Thanks for the heads up on this – should be working again now.
Re: Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe
#14As it appears to me (running Chrome on Linux) it's really hard to go looking for a particular location, since it's just dots on a solid blue browser tab. Is that by design? (Also, it shows stations in Madrid, Spain at a spot that I think is a bit west of Ames, Iowa.)
Thanks for the heads up on this – should be working again now.
From the you-can't-please-everyone dep't: in a weird way, the non-functioning map made the discovery process a little more fun. The map just started working for me–I didn't know that it was supposed to–and I was slightly disappointed.
Tho I support using satellite imagery and nothing more.
Brilliant site, and very well done. Thanks for putting it together and sharing it.
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#15I love this! I love the static when tuning as well as how quickly it starts playing from each station. The only suggestion I have it to put political boundaries so it is easier to see where you're at.
On the contrary, I think adding political boundaries would remove some of the power of the concept.
Re: Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe
#16Developer here. We weren't exactly expecting this to become as popular as it did.. Just survived being #1 on Reddit – sheesh. It seems our non-profit Bing maps key was revoked.. Switched to Arcgis imagery instead for now. Too bad, the Bing imagery was really great.
How did you populate this map? I looked at the Transnational Radio Encounters dataset and didn't find a list of stations, let alone a link to their stream.
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#17Amazing example of how good UI can make something so interesting and useful.
I have seen plenty of websites which lists the radio stations from all over the globe, but this interface makes it so much more interesting and fun.
Really well done to the devs.
Re: Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe
#18Developer here. We weren't exactly expecting this to become as popular as it did.. Just survived being #1 on Reddit – sheesh. It seems our non-profit Bing maps key was revoked.. Switched to Arcgis imagery instead for now. Too bad, the Bing imagery was really great.
It actually looked pretty cool without the basemap.
Perhaps talk to MapBox? They might be amenable to giving you a few more map views.
Re: Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe
#19Developer here. We weren't exactly expecting this to become as popular as it did.. Just survived being #1 on Reddit – sheesh. It seems our non-profit Bing maps key was revoked.. Switched to Arcgis imagery instead for now. Too bad, the Bing imagery was really great.
Make it as an mobile app! Hard to use it as a tab in a browser on the phone, but app is amazing! it!
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the heads up on this – should be working again now.
From the you-can't-please-everyone dep't: in a weird way, the non-functioning map made the discovery process a little more fun. The map just started working for me–I didn't know that it was supposed to–and I was slightly disappointed. Tho I support using satellite imagery and nothing more. Brilliant site, and very well done. Thanks for putting it together and sharing it.
We are actually working on a game mode, which takes away the map and has you track down countries by listening to different radio stations.