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Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by jebarker on Saturday January 21, 2023 @01:53PM (#34469079)
I dislike that this website replaces my cursor with a circle. Is there any good reason to do that?
Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by stefan_ on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:27PM (#34469421)
I like how it goes from full black to full white background. Anything to blast my eyes.
Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by cmrdporcupine on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:07PM (#34469217)
It actually is making my mouse cursor disappear entirely (Chrome on MacOS). It's like they built it only for touchscreens?

I expect I'll never go back and use it now. Jeez, who signed off on this?

Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by entropie on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:41PM (#34469574)
> It actually is making my mouse cursor disappear entirely

Same. Brave on Windows

Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by culi on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:27PM (#34469426)
Do you have javascript disabled? Some design heavy sites like to replace the default cursor. The CSS standard[0] still only really supports the few custom cursors that we've had for decades now and provides no way to style them so the only way to achieve this is through javascript currently

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor

Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by cmrdporcupine on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:31PM (#34469466)
No, but it might uBlock origin blocking something, I dunno.

I went into devtools and modified the CSS attribute and was able to get past it.

Dumb.

Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by lukefischer on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:05PM (#34469823)
Thanks for the feedback. We may go back. I signed off on it
Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by Finnucane on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:19PM (#34469345)
Ok my iPad it makes a dot where I touch the screen. It does seem like an irrelevant distraction.

Also, it would be nice to be able to search for available images without the app.

Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by lukefischer on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:04PM (#34469815)
It’s all opinions but good feedback. The cursor was a design choice. We may go back
Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by cjensen on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:23PM (#34470051)
Be aware that MacOS/Safari still has occasional bugs where the cursor shape gets stuck on whatever the web page switched it to. I know how to deal with that, but it's an annoyance when it happens.
Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by virgulino on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:17PM (#34469967)
Firefox 109.0 on Windows 10 shows no cursor at all. It is not possible to use the site.
Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by agolio on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:54PM (#34470391)
I like it FWIW :) maybe removing it on information pages like for pricing and keeping it on the landing page with the interactive glove is a good compromise
Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by alberth on Saturday January 21, 2023 @04:00PM (#34470468)
Luke, any chance you could resell Maxar 15cm imagery? (Or if something is better, that)

Dealing with their sales process is horrible. I’d love to buy it from you given how easy you make it.

https://blog.maxar.com/earth-intelligence/2020/introducing-1...

Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by lukefischer on Saturday January 21, 2023 @04:57PM (#34471016)
That's the goal...we have some interesting partnerships and a partner of ours is Albedo- 10cm resolution. A lot of our work deals with negotations to get them to believe the mission. Most have incentive to keep selling to the Govt, which I totally understand.
Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by alberth on Saturday January 21, 2023 @05:09PM (#34471158)
Two follow up questions.

1. Isn’t Albedo fake “10cm”. Meaning aren’t they using 50cm imagery and apply computations to it to “simulate” 10cm.

The image on this blog post, when zoomed in is actually quite bad

https://albedo.com/post/albedo-simulated-imagery

2. Can you explain why you mean when you say “most have incentivizes to keep selling to govt”.

Are you implying they can’t work with you?

Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by kraseng on Sunday January 22, 2023 @04:44AM (#34475817)
Hi, I will try to address these.

1 - Our partners (Albedo) will have 10 cm native as per their own site.

2 - The govt operates with large orders via face-to-face b2b sales channels. This is quite different than distributing to a large number of b2c (smaller) customers. Any commission based sales model targeting large customers will struggle with the second model.

Disclaimer - I am affiliated with SkyFi. I am the company’s CTO.

Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by alberth on Monday January 23, 2023 @12:59PM (#34492441)
Re: #1, isn't that 10cm only for Panchromatic (grey-scale). For what people care about, Multispectral (color), it's 40cm - which is considerably worse than what Google Earth provides.

https://albedo.com/product-specs

Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by lukefischer on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:39PM (#34470249)
just submitted the design change to go back to the regular cursor...thought we were being cool, guess not lol
Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by jebarker on Saturday January 21, 2023 @07:46PM (#34472751)
Kudos on being so responsive to that feedback!
Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth by CapsAdmin on Sunday January 22, 2023 @11:24AM (#34478933)
I didn't notice initially but now that I do I thought it was mildly cool.

How many complaints have you actually gotten?