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bpiroman

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100% agree. If an open source project needs money to run, then isn't that defeating the purpose of being open source? Open source is a gift economy. If the owner can monetise it on the side then that is just a bonus.

I recently launched this satellite imagery tool.

https://satellitemine.com/

I work as a civil engineer in the mining industry and it can be troublesome to download satellite imagery for a particular date and cloud index. Yes, Google Earth Engine and QGIS plugins exist, but they are slow and confusing to jump back into after a period of time. SatelliteMine is simple to use and any images of your area of interest is saved to your account and can be downloaded as a geotiff.

Currently free to use with a cloud storage capped at 512MB per account. Paid plans for greater storage requirements will be provided if the demand is there. Any feedback is welcomed :)

CSS Zen Garden 1 year ago

Love this! Would be cool if somebody did a css zen garden 2.0 using modern CSS tools. Oh and tailwind css is not aloud lol