I’ve posted several times about HeyWhatsThat, a website that shows:
- A panorama of what’s visible from that location, marking the position of peak geographic landmarks
- A list of the peaks, and the ability to show their position relative to your location on Google Maps
- Terrain profiles (elevation versus distance from the location to any point on the map)
- A plot all the areas visible from that location in red on Google Maps (aka the “viewshed” or “weapons fan”)
- Contour lines (zoom in for these)
- Google Earth export of position, viewshed, horizon line and horizon extent.
- Horizon terrain profiles in Google Sky
Well, the mobile version of HeyWhatsThat just placed 2nd in NavTeq’s Global LBS Challenge with a version of HeyWhatsThat for mobile phones. Have a 360 panorama with the labeled peaks of your current location delivered to your cellphone. There’s also a version for the Google Android platform, and an API for low-volume non-commercial use by websites/mobile phones.
Congratulations to Mike Kosowsky and his co-conspirators.
Related posts:
- New At HeyWhatsThat: Solar Eclipse Simulator, WebApp For iPhone And Android
- Panorama, Peak Identification And Viewsheds In Google Earth
- Updates To The HeyWhatsThat Planisphere
- Horizon Terrain Profiles In Google Sky
- Two Google Mapplets From The "Hey What's That" Site
- Plan Your 2009 Eclipse Viewing
- Seeing Russia From Alaska
- Viewfinder Mountaintop Panoramas And DEM Data
- News About "Hey What's That" Panorama And Viewshed Site
- "I Can See My House From Here": Line-Of-Sight And Viewsheds In MicroDEM
