Re:HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any po...
by Archelaos on Friday March 11, 2022 @06:00PM
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What about Mt. Taranaki?
https://www.heywhatsthat.com/?view=AVRM3QXH
Mostly ocean, but it seems to cover a wider area.
Re:HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any po...
by thedookmaster on Friday March 11, 2022 @12:30PM
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Mt. Diablo is in Contra Costa County, not Oakland.
Re:HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any po...
by vosper on Friday March 11, 2022 @12:58PM
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And at the right time of year there are tarantulas everywhere. Awesome spot.
Re:HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any po...
by meristem on Friday March 11, 2022 @01:34PM
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Loads of NOPE, thank you.
Re:HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any po...
by bjterry on Friday March 11, 2022 @05:25PM
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Thanks for the correction. It felt a lot closer, but I haven't been there in a long time.
Re:HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any po...
by jeffbee on Friday March 11, 2022 @12:37PM
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The way of getting the land area of the viewshed from this presentation is not immediately obvious.
Re:HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any po...
by bjterry on Friday March 11, 2022 @05:29PM
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My non-scientific method was to put the two windows side-by-side, and click the "zoom out" button three times to eyeball the difference.
Re:HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any po...
by oonerspism on Saturday March 12, 2022 @12:14AM
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Not to be flippant, but it's fascinating to think how an average airline passenger may trivially (and very approximately!) match or even beat such a land-based record simply by looking out the window at 40,000ft. *about twice Kilimanjaro's elevation, for the record.
Many semantics potentially apply, of course! But the principle is there. The principle that, for many decades now, humans have been matching the entire planet's largest natural viewshed, as a trivial matter of course during the everyday usage of technology, and barely even noticing most of the time...
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...