HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any point on Earth
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#2What a treat that the default location is Mt. Battie in Maine! I saw the tower up there from town just about every day growing up. Fun to see it pop up online!
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#3I use the app PeakFinder all the time and it’s incredible for determining what mountain is what when you’re on the go!
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#4This is very useful for vhf and uhf radio communications as well, which are normally* line of sight.
In fact, the adsb-receiver[1] software package for setting up an aircraft tracking station includes a neat feature where you can use HeyWhatsThat to calculate maximum line of sight distances to aircraft at various altitudes and include these contours on your aircraft tracking map.
* atmospheric phenomena such as density or humidity differences or reflections from other aircraft, the moon, or even meteors can enable reception over the horizon.
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#5Now I can confidently say I CAN see my house from here!
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#6I'm still waiting for an AR-style app which overlays the image from your phone camera with points of interest or GPS co-ordinates of distant places.
Or hell, even just a map where you can turn your phone facing a general direction and see an approximate line of sight.
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#7This is very useful for vhf and uhf radio communications as well, which are normally* line of sight. In fact, the adsb-receiver[1] software package for setting up an aircraft tracking station includes a neat feature where you can use HeyWhatsThat to calculate maximum line of sight distances to aircraft at various altitudes and include these contours on your aircraft tracking map. * atmospheric phenomena such as densi…
Not to mention even higher bands, like PtP WiFi [1].
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#8This is very useful for vhf and uhf radio communications as well, which are normally* line of sight. In fact, the adsb-receiver[1] software package for setting up an aircraft tracking station includes a neat feature where you can use HeyWhatsThat to calculate maximum line of sight distances to aircraft at various altitudes and include these contours on your aircraft tracking map. * atmospheric phenomena such as densi…
This is also going to be interesting for figuring out the minimum altitude for maintaining the link to an RC airplane for a given distance.
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#9I'm still waiting for an AR-style app which overlays the image from your phone camera with points of interest or GPS co-ordinates of distant places. Or hell, even just a map where you can turn your phone facing a general direction and see an approximate line of sight.
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#10There is a widely spread myth that Mt. Diablo in Oakland has the second largest viewshed in the world after Mt. Kilimanjaro[1]. With this tool you can actually compare them directly, which is pretty cool:
Mt. Diablo: https://www.heywhatsthat.com/?view=K1JW43D4
Mt. Kilimanjaro: https://www.heywhatsthat.com/?view=ME9CTRPG
1: Debunked here: https://www.kqed.org/news/11808501/does-mount-diablo-have-th...