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Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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post #15

I was able to follow the line of people / tents about halfway up using this as a guide: http://www.abc-of-mountaineering.com/images/content-images/a... Then lost them. Amazing photo!

I was able to follow them from base camp to the upper camps. It's easy, just zoom in and take five minutes of scrolling around!

I identified people by their shadows.

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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Looks like there's a few on the icefall. Follow the line of garbage, then up and across the fall. The only hard part is dealing with the inverted mouse movement on the interface. Why would they do that???

I came to post that- about the mouse movement. It's absolutely driving me nuts. Makes no sense.

I think it's just an artifact of pre-tablet era interaction design (not that this software was actually written all that long ago).

Nowadays it seems perfectly reasonable to imagine clicking and dragging the image around in order to pan -- I'm not confident that particular interaction would have even occurred to a lot of people a few years ago, though.

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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Looks like there's a few on the icefall. Follow the line of garbage, then up and across the fall. The only hard part is dealing with the inverted mouse movement on the interface. Why would they do that???

I don't know why it's not noted on the controls, but for me Shift -> zoom in, Cmd -> zoom out and arrow keys to move around.

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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post #30

Wow this is captivating, but panning with the mouse on a desktop is so frustrating, the image movement is opposite what I expect! (browsing on a desktop, Windows/Chrome)

I guess it's the hours spent panning around in Google Maps that's working against me

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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Looks like there's a few on the icefall. Follow the line of garbage, then up and across the fall. The only hard part is dealing with the inverted mouse movement on the interface. Why would they do that???

I came to post that- about the mouse movement. It's absolutely driving me nuts. Makes no sense.

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Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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Just spent like 25 minutes looking it over with my colleague at work. There is so much going on here, it's awesome. I was also very blown away by how big the camp at the bottom of the valley was. Most of those must be semi-permanent structures that the guides maintain. I couldn't imagine that is transient traffic. I think I remember seeing something on departures (or something) about a big festival that happens in this valley. Maybe that has some context here as well, but I have no idea. Great link!

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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Looks like there's a few on the icefall. Follow the line of garbage, then up and across the fall. The only hard part is dealing with the inverted mouse movement on the interface. Why would they do that???

Could the garbage you are referring to actually be the camps at the base of the mountain?

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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post #31
post #15

I was able to follow the line of people / tents about halfway up using this as a guide: http://www.abc-of-mountaineering.com/images/content-images/a... Then lost them. Amazing photo!

I was able to follow them from base camp to the upper camps. It's easy, just zoom in and take five minutes of scrolling around! I identified people by their shadows.

Yeah we did this too. Couldn't find anyone for camp 4 though. I have a decent guess where it as though.
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