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Re:Packing the World for Longest Lines of Sight by bradrn on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @02:15PM (#45519009)
This looks amazing! I recently moved to an apartment with a good view out the window, so I was excited to try this to identify some of the more distant hills I can see. Alas, it seems to have developed some bugs in the 4 years since the last commit… when I tried clicking in ‘Edit Mode’ to select a location, nothing happened and I couldn’t continue. Any chance you could look into updating this application?
Re:Packing the World for Longest Lines of Sight by yencabulator on Friday October 10, 2025 @01:46PM (#45541730)
Try https://www.peakfinder.com/ -- I use the Android app all the time (I have no memory of paying for it, though, maybe it used to be free?)
Re:Packing the World for Longest Lines of Sight by bradrn on Friday October 10, 2025 @02:59PM (#45542498)
I’ve been using such tools already (in particular https://www.udeuschle.de/panoramas/makepanoramas_en.htm). But for smaller or more distant features, I’ve found it can be difficult to correlate their physical appearance with their appearance on the diagram. A calibration tool like hdersch’s would make this much easier!