Curiosity Image Retrieval Tools, scripts and software Options

[DEChengst]

I wrote a shell script that allows you to download all images from a given sol.:

http://paranoid.dechengst.nl/files/MSLget.sh

There are two rm commands in the script to clean up the tempdir. If you're afraid my script screws up your system replace them with rm -i commands. If you want any features added please let me know and I'll see what I can do.

EDIT1:

Added leading zeros in the directory names for easy sorting after a request for it on IRC.

EDIT2:

I see a lot of people downloading the script. To be clear: This is a script for *NIX systems and won't run on a standard Windows box. To get it running under Windows you need to install a *NIX environment like Cygwin. Your other option would be to install something like Ubuntu in VirtualBox.

EDIT3:

As RoverDriver pointed out you need to have wget on your system to use this script. The script now handles this gracefully.

[elakdawalla]

I tried to establish a login, but after half an hour I haven't received the confirmation email (it's not in the spam folder either). Dunno if that's a problem for everybody or just me.

I suggest you establish a controlled or at least strongly suggested vocabulary, or at the very least a way to list tags currently in use. Certain things that get imaged a lot -- the chemin inlet port, marsdial, etc -- should somehow get tagged identically.

It would be great if there were a suggested style of tag that would help collect the images taken as part of a single panorama together. For MER I'd propose the use of a combination of sol number and sequence ID; I haven't paid close enough attention to MSL image file naming to know if there's an obvious way to do this, or if we would need to develop our own naming convention, e.g. "MLsol17panSW" or whatever. We're handicapped by not having the names of targets available as we do with MER...

If this gets used, it will represent a considerable amount of effort, so I would want to ensure that it will eventually get mapped to the PDS data as it becomes available.

[jmknapp]

I suggest you establish a controlled or at least strongly suggested vocabulary, or at the very least a way to list tags currently in use. Certain things that get imaged a lot -- the chemin inlet port, marsdial, etc -- should somehow get tagged identically.

That's a good idea--right now it's pretty much unconstrained, leaving to question whether the genius or madness of the crowd would prevail. Most sites like youtube, flickr, etc. suggest tags as you say. Not sure if it's my pay grade to come up with a list a priori though, so maybe a list of current tags is the way to go for a start.

Maybe if people used different tags once in a while for the same thing it wouldn't be too onerous to manually go in occasionally and merge synonymous tags and that would build up an 'approved' list more organically.

EDIT: I made a change that hopefully should make it less likely the activation email ends up in a spam folder. Hey, that's why it's called beta.