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.
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