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HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any point on Earth

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Re: HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any point on Earth

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Post by ramses0 »

wackget wrote: post #6

I'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.

In the early days of iOS there were tons of those apps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging#Wikipedia_article_g...

"""One of the first attempts to initiate the geotagging aspect of searching and locating articles seems to be the now-inoperative site Wikinear.com, launched in 2008, which showed the user Wikipedia pages that are geographically closest to one's current location.

The 2009 app Cyclopedia works relatively well showing geotagged Wikipedia articles located within several miles of ones location, integrated with a street-view mode, and 360-degree mode."""

Re: HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any point on Earth

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Post by thedookmaster »

bjterry wrote: post #10

There 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...

Mt. Diablo is in Contra Costa County, not Oakland.

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Post by jlv2 »

thatcherc wrote: post #2

What 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!

Agreed. I climbed it 5 years ago, and immediately recognized the name.

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Post by jeffbee »

bjterry wrote: post #10

There 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...

The way of getting the land area of the viewshed from this presentation is not immediately obvious.

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Post by scott113341 »

If you thing this is cool, also check out CalTopo (my favorite mapping software for backpacking):

- https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=40.10094,-105.61557&z=15&b=m...

- Right click and select "Simulated View"

- Change to "WireImagery" in the upper right

Re: HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any point on Earth

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Post by stonogo »

wackget wrote: post #6

I'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.

Ah, well... To absent friends!

https://www.wired.com/2012/05/hands-on-nokia-city-lens-beta-...

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Post by dessant »

chrisshroba wrote: post #3

I use the app PeakFinder all the time and it’s incredible for determining what mountain is what when you’re on the go!

Thanks so much for sharing, their website has just helped me to better understand the horizon of my city.

https://www.peakfinder.org

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