where is: peak view calculation website

[SSSdave]

Anyone have the web link to the peak view calculation website that we have used in the forum before? Shows a graphic of what can be viewed from specific locations. Recall someone showed where in the San Joaquin Valley that Half Dome was visible from on clear days.

David

[rlown]

Dave,

I'm not sure if this helps, but if you scroll through the comments, some gps coordinates and other things are called out.

http://www.yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?1,7686,7691

[cslaght]

caltopo.com has the view from here and also viewable area, is that the one?

[sambieni]

https://awhite4777.pythonanywhere.com/S ... ault/start

[Shawn]

PeakFinder -
https://www.peakfinder.org/?lat=36.606& ... one%20pine

Peakfinder.jpg

[cslaght]

To add more, if you go to cal topo and click a point and "Add new layer" and do the viewshed analysis and it will show you what is viewable form those points. (took me a minute to remember that way)

[cslaght]

http://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=37.38091 ... 2%7D%5D%7D

Is this what you're looking for?

[Shawn]

Hey cslaght -

That's some cool stuff. As a long time caltopo user, I didn't know it had that capability, so I appreciate the new knowledge from you. Thanks for posting it up.

[Jimr]

+1 and to PeakFinder.

[SSSdave]

Thanks Shawn and cslaght,

Recall seeing both those tools in the past but had not read documentation to use them. So first tried the peakfinder tool but had a difficult time making sense of how it actually correlated to my below photo without playing with Google Earth at the same time. It is a cell phone app and the feature and control set are straightforward seeming to be oriented to peakbaggers.

The caltopo tool is a more comprehensive desktop pc tool that I had to explore some before making sense of its use. Per the image below was able to reasonably duplicate the tool's graphic to my actual photo. That is a June 15 view a bit north of due east from the east shoulder of Mercur Peak at 7900 feet. To figure out the annotated points, I had to use Google Earth and the acmemapper topo views.

http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=38.09553,-119.80869&z=15&t=T





David