ISS Photo Explorer
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ISS Photo Explorer
My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS
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18 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 9 critical, out of 45 comments about the project. Thread score +0.20.
Design: 3 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 against
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Beautiful photos and fun to explore
From 3 comments
This is so cool! Thanks for sharing and great job to you both, some great wallpaper worthy shots here
dvtrn on HNI smiled big time
rory_isAdonk on HNThere are some truly incredible photos there..
pizza on HN
Clean, minimal implementation
From 1 comment
Looking at the code, this looks neat and minimal. I love the style. I was struck by how simple and effective an idea this was, and the clean implementation. Great work!
pcnix on HN
Objections
Image server is slow and often shows black or failed images
From 3 comments
Cool. After like 5 random clicks, all I get is black as the bottom images. Eventually the bottom right says "unable to load this image".
jowdones on HNUnfortunately, I couldn’t see much in this one. When I tried a few locations by tapping around on the map, I only got black screens at the bottom even for the places that were…
AnonC on HNI’m getting a “Loading data” page but no indication if the site is working. Has the sudden load taken it down?
remote_phone on HN
Breaks in some mobile browsers
From 3 comments
Doesn't seem to load in Firefox on my mobile.
aflag on HNWow really great way to explore this! Runs fine on Firefox focus, but not on 'regular' Firefox mobile
dddw on HNI want to check this out, but it's crashing on Firefox 77.0.1 on Linux. Seems cool though!
heavyset_go on HN
Back button hijacked by redirects
From 2 comments
When I land on the page, I get three history entries in my browser as your page loads. This means that if I have no interactions with the site and want to go back to HN, I need…
ivanstojic on HNUnfortunately, I couldn’t see much in this one. When I tried a few locations by tapping around on the map, I only got black screens at the bottom even for the places that were…
AnonC on HN
Requests
Add map zoom
From 3 comments
Wow, that's nice! I must admit I wasn't particularly curious about it but a fortuitous click over the region where I live returned some really nice pictures! Nice exploration…
caiobegotti on HNAwesome! Would be super cool if the map could be zoomed so I can try to catch pictures of my region :)
donmb on HNYep - had a couple of requests for that and will work on it later today - good idea - thank you.
callumprentice on HN
Thumbnail placeholders while loading
From 1 comment
Very cool. Maybe consider adding a fallback image for the thumbnails while they load since sometimes it takes a while.
augustt on HN
Sequence capture for time lapses
From 1 comment
Some of those are close to what I was thinking might be good for a sequence capture - provide a way to make the start/end of a sequence and then the page generates a bunch of…
callumprentice on HN
Questions
What tool is used to analyze these images
From 1 comment
What is the standard tool the industry uses to analyze pictures like this? I see these are JPEG's, that can't be the best format for this type of data, is it?
iopuy on HN
Alternatives named
Earlier ISS photo site with a NASA hackathon version
From 1 comment
related, but I made something similar too for a nasa hackathon a few years back https://nasa-space-app-2018.herokuapp.com/
Kagerjay on HN