Friend builds app to help find climbers lost in Peru

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Post by hamf » Sat, Jul 28, 2012, 4:28 AM UTC

Friend builds app to help find climbers lost in Peru
tomnod.com

Re: Friend builds app to help find climbers lost in Peru

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Post by Foy » Sat, Jul 28, 2012, 5:37 AM UTC

This is really cool except that I have no idea what any of these things would look like from a satellite image.

Could you possibly have "examples" of a base camp / avalanche / etc?

I can't tell if something is an avalanche or just a river / runoff.

Best of luck finding your friends!

Re: Friend builds app to help find climbers lost in Peru

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Post by emptyaccount » Sat, Jul 28, 2012, 5:49 AM UTC

Foy wrote: post #2

This is really cool except that I have no idea what any of these things would look like from a satellite image. Could you possibly have "examples" of a base camp / avalanche / etc? I can't tell if something is an avalanche or just a river / runoff. Best of luck finding your friends!

http://tomnod.com/gi/peru/examples.php

Re: Friend builds app to help find climbers lost in Peru

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Post by brentvatne » Sat, Jul 28, 2012, 6:07 AM UTC

Sign up? Why can't I just browse it anonymously?

Re: Friend builds app to help find climbers lost in Peru

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Post by nowarninglabel » Sat, Jul 28, 2012, 6:10 AM UTC

brentvatne wrote: post #4

Sign up? Why can't I just browse it anonymously?

I think you can actually, just x out of the sign up.

Re: Friend builds app to help find climbers lost in Peru

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Post by tymekpavel » Sat, Jul 28, 2012, 8:56 AM UTC

It'd be helpful if the navigation didn't obscure the entire top left corner of the map.

Re: Friend builds app to help find climbers lost in Peru

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Post by leberwurstsaft » Sat, Jul 28, 2012, 9:22 AM UTC

I'm quite amazed that this is even possible to do, as it needs recent satellite imagery both from after they allegedly hiked there and from shortly before, to be able to make comparisons.

Is there some place where one can check the recency of all the available sources of satellite imagery from all over the world?

Re: Friend builds app to help find climbers lost in Peru

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Post by zachinglis » Sat, Jul 28, 2012, 11:16 AM UTC

This is great. Really clever idea.

But the Space bar for showing before/after doesn't work on Safari or Chrome.

Re: Friend builds app to help find climbers lost in Peru

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Post by yaix » Sat, Jul 28, 2012, 1:28 PM UTC

tymekpavel wrote: post #6

It'd be helpful if the navigation didn't obscure the entire top left corner of the map.

You can drag it, just like Google Maps.

Re: Friend builds app to help find climbers lost in Peru

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Post by hogu » Sat, Jul 28, 2012, 2:28 PM UTC

space bar doesn't seem to work for me (ubuntu, firefox and chrome)