Felicette
Dev tools
cli tool
SHOW HN2020
303points
62comments
#138of 3,028 in 2020
Top 5%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
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6 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 7 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Execution: 3 for, 4 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful, neat tool; generated images look great
From 3 comments
Hey the images turn out great. That’s really cool!
ragona on HNThis is great, thanks for building this
ykevinator on HNFelicette was the first cat launched into space on 18 October 1963 as part of the French Space Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9licette Definition of felicette…
michaelangerman on HN
Objections
Hard to install due to GDAL and dependency issues on Ubuntu
From 3 comments
Seems nice but sends you to dependency hell when you try to install on Ubuntu. On 18.04, it can't find the correct openvc On 19.04, same things On 20.04, the repo doesn't include…
ur-whale on HN[pipx](https://pipxproject.github.io/pipx/) is a nice way to download python CLI apps in a separate contained virtual env. But I couldn't install your app with it:…
ducktective on HNLooks like a great tool, but its dependencies are sufficiently complex to warrant a Dockerfile. This way it would be very clear what the dependencies are independent of how the…
prennert on HN
Imagery resolution too low (Landsat 30m)
From 2 comments
A couple of comments... > TL;DR: Generate JPEG earth imagery from a location's name/coordinates It downloads imagery. At first I thought this was a project to simulate satellite…
kingofpandora on HNI give it a coordinate and it give me a picture of the French and UK sea towns. That is quite a low resolution I guess.
ngcc_hk on HN
Some images blank or odd for certain locations
From 1 comment
Interesting. Take quite some time to install. And some images are great like `felicette -l "New York" Some totally blank (real time and dark) felicette -l "Hong Kong" Some not…
ngcc_hk on HN
Data source and licensing undocumented in README
From 3 comments
Where the data are coming from? Can't find a word about it in README.
ComodoHacker on HNNeat project! The example photos in Drive are a bit wonky on mobile and only one of the files is accessible. Consider adding a few example photos in the readme. What’s the…
secondo on HNYeah amazing they’ve left out the key info like source of images. Does this API need a token?
dzhiurgis on HN
Requests
Add a Dockerfile
From 1 comment
Looks like a great tool, but its dependencies are sufficiently complex to warrant a Dockerfile. This way it would be very clear what the dependencies are independent of how the…
prennert on HN
Support Sentinel 2 imagery
From 1 comment
For a little more effort you could "interleave" the Sentinel 2 images as well, which are of a similar resolution and also have a simple access API.
enriquto on HN
Higher-resolution sources such as NAIP
From 1 comment
NAIP has 1 m/pixel imagery, only over US.
perennate on HN
Allow farbfeld output and custom band assignment
From 1 comment
Here are some possibilities to add: - Allow farbfeld output (to stdout) - Allow specifying your own assignment of bands - Allow to skip the colour adjustment if you want to do…
zzo38computer on HN
Questions
Where does the data come from and what are the licensing terms
From 2 comments
Neat project! The example photos in Drive are a bit wonky on mobile and only one of the files is accessible. Consider adding a few example photos in the readme. What’s the…
secondo on HNWhere the data are coming from? Can't find a word about it in README.
ComodoHacker on HN
Can it show near-real-time imagery
From 1 comment
is it live? Like can a get a pic of a place made at day light in the last 24 hours?
bobwernstein on HN
Alternatives named
aerialbot, a tile-based satellite image tool
From 1 comment
This is neat! I’ve built something similar, although my tool can pull its data from any service that supports tile indexing via the Web Mercator Transform (e.g. Google Maps, OSM,…
doersino on HN
sat-search
From 1 comment
Looking at the code, it appears to be a nice front end to sat-search https://github.com/sat-utils/sat-search
gzu on HN
OpenDroneMap
From 2 comments
On a tangent, but any suggestions for a tool to stitch up drone aerial imagery and use it as a map? Preferably on the phone/tablet.
DenisM on HNhttps://www.opendronemap.org/ Works quite well. Input images must have geo data in the exif metadata like longitude, latitude, FOV, camera pitch (most drones e.g. Autel and DJI…
perennate on HN
QGIS
From 1 comment
Um, don't know of a tool to process aerial imagery using phone/tablet. But I'm sure you're aware of https://qgis.org/en/site/. Some of my friends used this to analyze vegetation…
plant99 on HN