Love the idea Hari. On my iPhone, when I tap a dot, it takes me straight to the camera page. I would expect a popover with a title, etc. and a second tap to go to the camera page.
good catch, thats a mobile bug. desktop hover shows the popover, tap on mobile skips it and jumps. adding a mobile-only tap-once-for-preview flow tonight. thanks
This is nice, but how are you determining the location of a camera for map purposes? Some of them are correct, but there are others that have very specific map locations that are off by as much as a hemisphere - an Ohio one in Chicago, a Venice, Italy one in San Bernardino, Pennsylvania and Ohio in Phoenix, etc.
Every is a bold claim. Aspirational. Good luck going forward filling them all in.
There's a fair few missing from Australia (easily more than 8 24/7 live cameras in Oz). eg: The Kings Canyon Waterholes in Watarrka National Park. (mostly dawn and dusk action)
fair. every is aspirational, shouldve said as many as i can find. currently 652 cams, targeting the ~2-3k publicly embeddable ceiling. adding kings canyon waterholes now, ping me any other australian cams you know of and ill get them in tonight. appreciate the poke
No drama, will do if I get the free time. You might like to try your luck asking in /r/Australia or searching for already existing cam lists.
Spinning globe apps are always fun to, uhh, spin up - it's getting good and near complete data sets to layer on that often poses the real last mile challenge.
agreed that "every" is a bold claim. I can find more with a google search.
(edit) the site doesn't even let me suggest more. oh wait it does, it'a an almost invisible link at the bottom.
and man the form is annoying... url, email, catoregy, country, lat, lon... why not just right click place webcam done with it... I know where it is on a map, but this makes me go to google maps, find the lat/lon, copy them out, paste them into this other form....
I like the idea. As others have noted, some of the map placements are wrong. For example, the Glendale Ohio cam is placed in Glendale Arizona. Easy to patch up, and a fun idea. Good job!
cool idea, I like the round globe too, now with 3D rendering in the browser being trivial on modern devices, there’s no excuse for choosing compromising 2D projections of the globe.
I have something similar at https://livelane.qubic-ventures.com. Started as a simple weekend project, but it’s becoming quite the headache. All sources are mainly from official government sites, which means many are very unreliable.
Some have public APIs, others require registration where it takes months to hear back.
I currently have about 30 ingestion scripts that more often than not break down.
I then also have an iOS app, but that ships with a bundled sqlite database.
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This message piles up in the console:
Blocked https://liveworld.info from extracting canvas data because no user input was detected
Started watching the Sea Otters in the Seattle Aquarium. 10/10 would 'awww' again.
There's a fair few missing from Australia (easily more than 8 24/7 live cameras in Oz). eg: The Kings Canyon Waterholes in Watarrka National Park. (mostly dawn and dusk action)
Spinning globe apps are always fun to, uhh, spin up - it's getting good and near complete data sets to layer on that often poses the real last mile challenge.
All the best.
Some pins also seem stacked exactly on top of one another, making them inaccessible (e.g. Chicago).
I've also got a list of 160 live YouTube cam streams with coordinates if you want me to send them somewhere.
just off the top of my head:
https://www.summitatsnoqualmie.com/webcams all of these are live most of the time
agreed that "every" is a bold claim. I can find more with a google search.
(edit) the site doesn't even let me suggest more. oh wait it does, it'a an almost invisible link at the bottom.
and man the form is annoying... url, email, catoregy, country, lat, lon... why not just right click place webcam done with it... I know where it is on a map, but this makes me go to google maps, find the lat/lon, copy them out, paste them into this other form....
cool idea, I like the round globe too, now with 3D rendering in the browser being trivial on modern devices, there’s no excuse for choosing compromising 2D projections of the globe.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island
WEBCAM NEPAL LIVE: LUKLA AIRPORT - LIVE STREAMING FROM HIMALAYA LODGE LUKLA, SOLUKHUMBU, NEPAL - https://www.youtube.com/live/am9KDRSZQ-0?si=IjVDTSU_IZ418fyT
Lowercasing the text and removing a few periods does not obfuscate the fact that it is Claudespeak.
And that is why most of OP's comments are being auto-flagged by HN's slop detector, which you can see if you turn on showdead.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
yeah right, TIL in Czechia there are only 3 live cameras and in Slovakia and Hungary zero
found immediately one in Bratislava
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SXt2_-luUr8
what a horrible website with such claims
flagged for obvious lies in title
Some have public APIs, others require registration where it takes months to hear back.
I currently have about 30 ingestion scripts that more often than not break down.
I then also have an iOS app, but that ships with a bundled sqlite database.
Gotta work on your discovery more.