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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! Ni

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 tool! A feature request if I may: it would be incredible if somehow I could zoom in a bit on the world map as there are so many shots over multiple passes of the ISS that it's very hard to pinpoint the desired place on the map, it's almost by chance sometimes.

saagarjha 6y ago
Yeah, I tried to select the Bay Area and had a bit of a difficult time doing so :(
- callumprentice 6y ago
  Yeah - sometimes their web server seems to stall. That was the main reason we added a feature to turn off the thumbnails - getting those slows things down a lot - not sure if they are throttling it somehow.
- callumprentice 6y ago
  You can always manually enter the lat/lng (37.7749, -122.4194) in the URL until I figure a way to make zoom work.
callumprentice 6y ago
Thank you and zooming is a great idea that I hadn't considered after the switch from the WebGL globe (which did that of course). I'll add that to the list - thank you.
pbhjpbhj 6y ago
I'm not sure about the utility of the whole thing - I think I'd just like to filter the images (bottom two panes) according to the section of the World I'd zoomed in the top pane. I'd have top-left, World map; bottom-left thumbnails; full-page-right current image. So I could zoom to an area of the World, all images that cover that area would be in the thumbnails, select a thumbnail to view. Ideally if zoomed enough then there might be outlines on the World map that show the imaged areas available. Cool idea though.
- callumprentice 6y ago
  Understood and I like your suggestion. The problem we had trying to preview too much was that pulling the 'small' (still quite large) images off their web server for each lat/lng point seemed to bring it to its' knees. I wish there was a quick way to see a thumbnail - that opens up a bunch of ideas. I considered downloading all 3.5M images (in batches) and converting to 128x128 thumbs to store and serve locally but probably not good form to do that to NASA and my tired old computer would get rather sad I think. Hopefully someone else will be inspired to improve on the idea though.
  - zeristor 6y ago
    I am not a Nastronaut, but I think NASA wold love this project; they’re keen to show off their work and engage with the public as much as possible. Making thumbnails of the images seems like a useful task in itself.
    - callumprentice 6y ago
      Yeah - I reached out to the people listed o nthe main photo page - we'll see if they are able to respond.

saagarjha 6y ago

Yeah, I tried to select the Bay Area and had a bit of a difficult time doing so :(

callumprentice 6y ago
Yeah - sometimes their web server seems to stall. That was the main reason we added a feature to turn off the thumbnails - getting those slows things down a lot - not sure if they are throttling it somehow.
callumprentice 6y ago
You can always manually enter the lat/lng (37.7749, -122.4194) in the URL until I figure a way to make zoom work.

callumprentice 6y ago

Thank you and zooming is a great idea that I hadn't considered after the switch from the WebGL globe (which did that of course). I'll add that to the list - thank you.

pbhjpbhj 6y ago

I'm not sure about the utility of the whole thing - I think I'd just like to filter the images (bottom two panes) according to the section of the World I'd zoomed in the top pane. I'd have top-left, World map; bottom-left thumbnails; full-page-right current image. So I could zoom to an area of the World, all images that cover that area would be in the thumbnails, select a thumbnail to view. Ideally if zoomed enough then there might be outlines on the World map that show the imaged areas available. Cool idea though.

callumprentice 6y ago
Understood and I like your suggestion. The problem we had trying to preview too much was that pulling the 'small' (still quite large) images off their web server for each lat/lng point seemed to bring it to its' knees. I wish there was a quick way to see a thumbnail - that opens up a bunch of ideas. I considered downloading all 3.5M images (in batches) and converting to 128x128 thumbs to store and serve locally but probably not good form to do that to NASA and my tired old computer would get rather sad I think. Hopefully someone else will be inspired to improve on the idea though.
- zeristor 6y ago
  I am not a Nastronaut, but I think NASA wold love this project; they’re keen to show off their work and engage with the public as much as possible. Making thumbnails of the images seems like a useful task in itself.
  - callumprentice 6y ago
    Yeah - I reached out to the people listed o nthe main photo page - we'll see if they are able to respond.