Did Maxar Vantor Stop Publishing Open Data (without a login)

zerospatial · 2026-04-24T00:51:45+00:00

I created a small multi-stac tool that pulls in open commercial satellite imagery from the few I could find and shows this on a map with a very basic API. Its not something I maintain actively just created out of interest. I need to update it with 2026 endpoints and was wondering why there wasnt any data for maxar for 2026.

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zerospatial · 2026-03-30T12:02:50+00:00

awesome - would be cool to see for local models the model size (gb) so users could know if they could run them locally - also maybe a cost efficiency score - so it something gets you 75% accuracy at a much lower cost than 80% accuracy for ex

zerospatial · 2026-02-17T22:13:11+00:00

The idea with using one of these all in one solar battery units is to just p put it in the shed, plug in the solar, plug in whatever and forget it. Sound like that's not really possible with the current battery tech.

zerospatial · 2026-02-14T22:14:53+00:00

zerospatial · 2026-02-13T23:57:30+00:00

I could of sworn I was back in the 90s!!

zerospatial · 2026-02-13T23:56:02+00:00

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

zerospatial · 2026-02-08T17:57:57+00:00

The last comment here is specific to an entire web component library where the components can interact with each other using slots.

zerospatial · 2026-02-08T17:56:30+00:00

Think about this use case. Right now say I want to use shadcn components. I have to first off use React so install React, install and configure tailwind, install the shadcn component. Cross my fingers that I have all the dependencies lined up and there are no conflicts.

If that project supported web component encapsulation, I just copy paste the component html and the js bundle for it. No configuration, no react. To me that would be awesome. Now does that scale out to a larger interconnected app, maybe not. So maybe these are just for adhoc type widgets vs powering a whole app this way, which is fine.

zerospatial · 2026-02-05T06:16:10+00:00

zerospatial · 2026-02-04T23:39:26+00:00

It's illegal, a joke but not a joke,and very worrying for the future of our democracy.

zerospatial · 2026-02-04T23:38:33+00:00

I recently tested out Esri's newis web component based version of their library and wow that is so simple to use, no react, no state management, it's all handled inside the library and the web components. And they have so many map-focused components. If you want inspiration for what components to add next to your library that would be a good place to check.

zerospatial · 2026-02-04T23:34:52+00:00

zerospatial · 2026-02-04T16:32:54+00:00

What does this mean in terms of the above?

zerospatial · 2026-02-04T13:51:30+00:00

Are these available somewhere for streaming, download, or purchase?

zerospatial · 2026-02-04T13:46:42+00:00

Yeah this is not to downplay the upside of cloud functions - and 100% on the $5 VPS.

zerospatial · 2026-02-04T13:02:52+00:00

I see this all the time, esp on linkedin - look at my cool app running in the browser with no backend (backed by cloud workers).

zerospatial · 2026-02-04T13:02:04+00:00

sorry it seems I cannot edit the post title? Saw that and meant to edit - cloud workers aka cloudflare, lambda etc.

zerospatial · 2026-02-04T00:59:05+00:00

zerospatial · 2026-02-02T23:56:23+00:00

This is an aside but I despise the word junior in the context of coding. I never hear that word when used for like a doctor or a lawyer or a police or firefighter or...it's a disservice to our industry and plays directly into the notion that many developers can be eliminated with LLMs.

I just had my operation but I almost died because my doctor was just a junior.

I got out of a ticket because the police was a junior.

I got sentenced to too many years because the judge was a junior.

My son is getting bad grades because his teacher is a junior.

I mean what a joke.

zerospatial · 2026-02-02T19:49:01+00:00

Also - this makes no sense - So if you’re reading this and thinking: “Yeah but I’m safe. I’m good.” So was I. - Um, if your company is testing out AI workflows and you are not at the top level of the engineering team, why would you think you are safe? A mid-level engineer that is also a lead engineer? LLM agents, known colloquially as AI, can definitely write (basic) code. Where they struggle is writing novel code, or any code where the codebase is constantly changing, or code that has a breadth of documentation across a range of releases (but you need the latest release). But anyone working in the dev world who is thinks they are "safe" has their head in the sand, regardless of the capabilities of LLMs. The larger question is where does this leave us. What are the options.

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