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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 int_19h »

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 It seems our non-profit Bing maps key was revoked..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

It appears that the way it decides where the dots should go, goes by the city name alone, and ignores the state.

In my case, I am in North Bend, WA. It shows the nearest station as KBBR:

http://radio.garden/live/north-bend/1340kbbr/

The problem is that it is actually physically located in North Bend, OR:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBBR

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

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Post by fernly »

Brilliant concept and execution! I figured, it must be every station that has a live stream, but no, my nearest station, KZSU Stanford, has multiple streams and isn't there. And the list of presences in the one green dot in SF is much too short. So... what's the source?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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 It seems our non-profit Bing maps key was revoked..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

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

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Post by briandear »

handedness wrote: post #15
niij wrote: post #9

I 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.

Make it toggle. Then you can be magical or practical.

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

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Post by Hondor »

noobermin wrote: post #2

Simply awesome. Ironically, I haven't had a radio in years and I don't own a car, but I found a local radio station I've never listened to before. The designer's website is a trip too[0]. [0] http://puckey.studio/

That real time typing reminds me of chatting via direct modem connection to your friends. It gives a slightly better awareness of the person's feelings. Instant messengers now don't seem to do that, I guess the latency on the global internet is too high.
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