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#2You hike to the top of a mountain or pull off at a scenic overlook. You see mountains in the distance. Which mountains are they? HeyWhatsThat will tell you, providing a 360° panoramic sketch labeled with the names of the peaks you're looking at. From almost anywhere in the world.
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#4Reminds me of the app from the Swiss federal office of topology (swisstopo), which has the same functionality (albeit limited to Switzerland, of course): https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/swisstopo-application
This webapp seems to be more useful though, thanks for sharing.
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#5Very nice! I personally use PeakFinder on my phone. It can overlay peak names directly onto the camera image. I think it’s well worth the five bucks.
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#6Reminds me of the app from the Swiss federal office of topology (swisstopo), which has the same functionality (albeit limited to Switzerland, of course): https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/swisstopo-application This webapp seems to be more useful though, thanks for sharing.
It's topography not topology! Would be funny if a country has a government department dedicated to the mathematical field of topology!
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#7Reminds me of the app from the Swiss federal office of topology (swisstopo), which has the same functionality (albeit limited to Switzerland, of course): https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/swisstopo-application This webapp seems to be more useful though, thanks for sharing.
It's topography not topology! Would be funny if a country has a government department dedicated to the mathematical field of topology!
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#8This is real clunky from a browser. https://caltopo.com can do this from a map (right-click on the viewpoint, point-info, simulated view). The horizonator (https://github.com/dkogan/horizonator/) is a hackable implementation; has a FAST local gui, and can easily be extended to do other stuff.
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#9The (pun ahead) peak of this method imho is implemented in "PeakFinder", afaik uses a low res nation wide (switzerland) height map, after initial gps fix it downloads local high res height map, calculates peak contours based of current location AND height and overlays that grid including the peak names onto the camera feed using the gyro and compass.
It's quite easy to build accurate geo-related applications in Switzerland due to the excellent work of the government office "Swiss Topo" that maps every tree, every house, every road in the whole country. Trees in cities have metadata such as: year planted, type etc. :)
Johnny Harris, the map aficionado mentioned Swiss maps and Swiss Topo's dedication multiple times in his videos.
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#10You hike to the top of a mountain or pull off at a scenic overlook. You see mountains in the distance. Which mountains are they? HeyWhatsThat will tell you, providing a 360° panoramic sketch labeled with the names of the peaks you're looking at. From almost anywhere in the world.
How do I select the lookout point? There's only a drop down with a few points, which isn't close to "anywhere in the world", so I'm sure I'm missing something.