It seems our non-profit Bing maps key was revoked.. Switched to Arcgis imagery instead for now. Too bad, the Bing imagery was really great.
My kids don't understand how magical the world is today--how they can do what cost me so much money and time and effort by doing nothing more than poking a few icons on their phones. These things don't mean much to them; they were born into a world where magic was just daily life.
But, things like this are still magical to me, even though I've been a developer for decades. Somehow, even knowing how the "tricks" are done, I still think it's magic. Just tonight, I fed YouTube into my HD TV and watched as someone walked around my old neighborhood in Tokyo with a 4K camera. Then again where I used to live in Seoul. And a couple of days ago, I found something for my father out in the desert a thousand miles from here by using Google Street View to "drive" down a remote highway, looking around until I found it. And now I can just spin the globe and point at a dot to hear a broadcast coming from that location. I've been listening to online broadcasts for 20 years using lists of online radio stations, but this is so much nicer.
I sometimes wonder if I'm the only one who sees all of this as real-world magic.
Technology is magic. The reason why many people get uncomfortable when speaking of magic is that they think it's something otherworldly, and thus non-existent.
But magic is what we do, it's just a mystery for those who don't know the incantations and methods. That goes for technology as well as rhetoric, or medicine, or politics or what have you.
We even call it magical but it's somehow OK only if we don't really mean it. :-D
I also want to add what a terrific user experience this site provides. It's "technically" no different than a list of radio stations from around the world, but the presentation definitely makes it seem magical.
The next step will be AR/VR where I can hold a globe in the palm of my hand and spin and poke at it to get radio stations.
It would be very nice to have similar interface for TV channels instead of sites like filmon.
Suggestions:
- Let the radio keep playing while the user scrolls the map and until they click on a different spot.
- Run a kickstarter for creating a mobile app for this and getting a paid key to the Bing maps. Having the MVP already running I think it'll sell like candy!
- Labels for the stations, cities, etc. The UI should be great on this, so the user feels like traveling across the world! Maybe even include Google Street View? Not sure, just a thought..
Again, amazing work!
In my case, I am in North Bend, WA. It shows the nearest station as KBBR:
http://radio.garden/live/north-bend/1340kbbr/
The problem is that it is actually physically located in North Bend, OR:
Perhaps talk to MapBox? They might be amenable to giving you a few more map views.
http://www.communityvoices.in/directory/community-media-maps...
Amazing website, though.
edit: Apparently it's a Chrome problem. Works fine in Firefox. Cheers!
Ubuntu 16.04: it works in Opera, doesn't work in FF (I'm probably blocking something vital with one of the various privacy add ons).
Android 6 tablet: it doesn't work in either the stock browser (updated yesterday) and Firefox.
Where are you getting the data? How do you find the stations and coordinates?
One suggestion: add a volume control. It's far too loud even at minimum volume on my Macbook.
To be clear, of course my macbook volume control works, but even with that set at the minimum, the radio volume is punishingly loud (to these ears at least)
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