GeoShuffle Devlog #2

Since the main theme for this minigame is to use satellite images of Earth, I started looking for ways to get satellite images for free.

I first stumbled onto NASA’s GIBS API

This allowed me to get access to satellite imagery of Earth programmatically using a simple Python script.
But I soon ran into trouble as you can see in the first image; most of these satellite images contain random clouds or oceans most of the time.

I then tried to limit the search by mostly picking coordinates over landmasses, but it was still too random and very hard to guess what the original image looked like after being shuffled.

That’s when I found out about limhenry/earthview

It’s a collection of beautiful locations on Earth taken through satellite imagery. (as seen in image 2)

So moving forward, I’ll be using these images to create the shuffle from.