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1. Look around 2. Find a relatively close high spot that is visible 3. Plan and climb on top of it 4. From the peak, find the next highest spot visible 5. Repeat
Also works for other topologies.
https://beyondhorizons.eu/2016/08/03/pic-de-finestrelles-pic...
It's a report how they made an actual photograph of a sunrise over 443km far. Quite amazing!
BTW if you ever get the chance to go up Mt. Canigou, go for it. Since it's the first big mountain in Pyrenees from the east you have really spectacular views and it's not that difficult to hike up there. Plus they brew great beer (from iceberg water they say) in the refuge just under it.
Surely the longest distance would be, from the top of the highest point on Earth (top of Everest), to the horizon?
http://i.imgur.com/F8SqEj9.png
Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/6ofr5y/locations_y...
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I guess that makes sense. I was just confused for a bit because I wasn't sure if the height was in in thousands of meters or miles (but if miles, it was odd in comparison to the kilometer distances). I looked up Mt. McKinley and converted the foot rating to meters to confirm that it was indeed thousands of meters, but the process got me wondering if page was mixing locale formats, or whether the my assumption that it…
In mainland Europe we only use the metric system, even when speaking or writing English. Also it is common to stick to the comma as decimal separator and dot as thousands separator when writing English. This convention is independent of the language used. Same goes for date notation, dd-mm-yyyy is used (almost) always. In Windows or Linux for example you can select the English language with Dutch localisation. It's u…
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The version I got, in a tech company interview, was how much longer would you need to make the rope to allow a cat to go under it. They were basically just look for 2 x Pi x Cat in this case.
That question is ambiguous. If you only need a single cat to go under the rope at some point, you just add a small arch for the cat to walk through. This requires a length of rope somewhat less than twice the height of the cat. 2 x Pi x Cat would levitate the rope by the height of the cat along the entire circumference of the Earth, allowing a billion cats to go under it simultaneously. You could even make do with no…
Assuming a 0.3 meter high cat, you only need ~0.12mm of extra rope (about the width of two sheets of paper) to be able to pull it up at a point and let the cat through.
OT: Is there an application that can generate panoramic view from some point of Earth based on map and altitude data (e.g. OpenStreetMaps)?
There are some free, open, datasources for that, like SRTM[1], ASTER[2] (and maybe OpenDEM[3], but I don't know what that's like)
[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SRTM [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ASTER [3] http://www.opendem.info/
Mt. McKinley (6.194 m.) What country uses '.' as the thousands separator but speaks English? Or is this someone mixing their native language thousands separator with English? Or is there some weird interaction between country and language that makes this the preferred, or at minimum an acceptable standard form? I'm actually hoping it's one of the latter options, that would be something new to me.
.eu suggests this website was not created by native English speakers.
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.eu suggests this website was not created by native English speakers.
The UK and Ireland are (currently) in the EU and it's not uncommon for English-speaking organizations/individuals with a particularly internationalist perspective to use the .eu domain.
And Ireland isn't leaving the EU any time soon.
