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Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe

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Re: Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe

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Post by rootkea »

SiVal wrote: post #34
studiopuckey wrote: post #12

Developer 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 It seems our non-profit Bing maps key was revoked..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.

I love this thing you've made. I've been exploring the world with radio since long before the WWW was invented. I used to carry a shortwave radio with me wherever I traveled back in the 1970s and 80s. I would lie there in the dark in Japan listening to the broadcasts out of North Korean screeching about the "Great Leader" (Kim Il-sung) or in Thailand listening to the Khmer Rouge (whom I couldn't understand, but I kne…

Not alone! I'm more into TV though. I have international free streaming TV channels as bookmarks. Starting from DW to NHK World. These international TV channels give a glimpse into the culture, viewpoint of a country IMO.

It would be very nice to have similar interface for TV channels instead of sites like filmon.

Re: Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe

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Post by weab00 »

studiopuckey wrote: post #12

Developer 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 It seems our non-profit Bing maps key was revoked..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.

Radio Garden has been stuck on "Planting Radio Garden" (http://i.imgur.com/ncmxjrm.png) for a while now. Is this because of poor connection on my part, or is it le Reddit Hug of Death?

Amazing website, though.

edit: Apparently it's a Chrome problem. Works fine in Firefox. Cheers!

Re: Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe

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Post by futne »

Why are you using WebGL for this with no other option? I am using Chrome because it is infinitely faster than Firefox. I get the following message from your site:

    Error constructing CesiumWidget. Visit http://get.webgl.org to verify that your web browser and hardware support WebGL. Consider trying a different web browser or updating your video drivers. Detailed error information is below:

    RuntimeError: The browser supports WebGL, but initialization failed. Error at new t (http://rg-60c3.kxcdn.com/bundle-792cb1b42393ce14840f.js:13:1700) at new B (http://rg-60c3.kxcdn.com/bundle-792cb1b42393ce14840f.js:37:3393) at new ce (http://rg-60c3.kxcdn.com/bundle-792cb1b42393ce14840f.js:36:6010) at new e (http://rg-60c3.kxcdn.com/bundle-792cb1b42393ce14840f.js:32:898) at t.e.value (http://rg-60c3.kxcdn.com/bundle-792cb1b42393ce14840f.js:10:9355) at t.e.value (http://rg-60c3.kxcdn.com/bundle-792cb1b42393ce14840f.js:9:21370) at e.notifyAll (http://rg-60c3.kxcdn.com/bundle-792cb1b42393ce14840f.js:5:4913) at r.h.close (http://rg-60c3.kxcdn.com/bundle-792cb1b42393ce14840f.js:7:12663) at r.o.closeAll (http://rg-60c3.kxcdn.com/bundle-792cb1b42393ce14840f.js:5:8329) at r.o.perform (http://rg-60c3.kxcdn.com/bundle-792cb1b42393ce14840f.js:5:7818)
From `http://get.webgl.org` I get

    While your browser seems to support WebGL, it is disabled or unavailable.
I tried to enable WebGL and found that it was only experimental for application development:

    chrome://flags
    
    WebGL 2.0 Prototype Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
    Enabling this option allows web applications to access the experimental WebGL 2.0 feature. This option should only be used for application development, and should not be used when browsing arbitrary web sites. #enable-unsafe-es3-apis
So I am required to enable something that is warned against just to be able to use a single site. Not exactly what I would consider user friendly…
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