Right now this is a very flaky beta, but it's still a great application. What it does is, takes a location you specify (click on Google maps, or lat and long, or whatever) and works out what you can see from there. However, I think they've missed a serious trick here. Focus seems to be on creating a system which will calculate and display the views from mountaintops - but what this reminds me of most are the coastline sketches you find in pilot books for yachtsmen (and women, no sexism intended). These sort of sketches are really seriously useful if you're down at sea level looking out at unfamiliar coastline... sadly, though, when I tried to get the view from just off Holy Island (the Lindisfarne one), it - well, it struggled. Sea level kinda blows its little mind right now, I guess.
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A bit like Dave Ian Hill's biography "Fog On The Tyne."
Aw, cool! Cheers Moom!
I had an application like this which used to fit the whole of the UK (to 1m altitude resolution) on a single 1.44MB floppy disk - You just needed to give OSNG refs- It was used for siting radio transmitters/receivers to predict line-of-site
{Now if I could just remember who it was I was extolling the app to... I'd tell them about this}
Didn't Google Something do altitudes?
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