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throughthestreams:

I rather enjoy number 3, being as I’m in college because I actually want to learn and will probably be in debt 4ever over it. Whatevz, life is short.

blech:

toffeemilkshake:

At risk of becoming a MapBox fan blog:

Using open data, MapBox is taking on the big players in online maps. Now they want to fix satellite view.

Here’s a nice quote from the article:

The team uses some techniques to ensure that they’re capturing peak growth, which is May/June in the northern hemisphere and December/January in the southern. In addition, because the process favors darker pixels, the first output can seem very dim and underexposed, says Loyd.

“It’s a completely natural product,” says Loyd. “Every pixel is a real pixel captured by an camera in the sky. But it’s also completely synthetic.” The goal for the map is to capture roughly what the naked eye can see from space, but for an idealized cloudless planet trapped in eternal summer.

Definitely worth a glance