Caltopo Adds Weekly High Res Sat Images
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Caltopo Adds Weekly High Res Sat Images
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Re: Caltopo Adds Weekly High Res Sat Images
I am too old for your lingo! In our day, "bananas" meant bullxxxx. So, what do you really mean?
Obviously it will become a paid only feature; those trial balloons always do that. It is pretty amazing, though. It still says little about the condition of the snow, depth, but it truly is a good starting point for trip planning. The fact that it is weekly is a downfall. During the melt, a week makes a big difference.
Obviously it will become a paid only feature; those trial balloons always do that. It is pretty amazing, though. It still says little about the condition of the snow, depth, but it truly is a good starting point for trip planning. The fact that it is weekly is a downfall. During the melt, a week makes a big difference.
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Re: Caltopo Adds Weekly High Res Sat Images
Super cool. Thanks for sharing!
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Re: Caltopo Adds Weekly High Res Sat Images
Wow, that's cool! Thanks!
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Re: Caltopo Adds Weekly High Res Sat Images
It's cool, but it will lure people with false hopes into a soggy adventure... already reminding folks that water is more dangerous than postholing right now...
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Re: Caltopo Adds Weekly High Res Sat Images
You're such a ray of sunshine.AlmostThere wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2019 9:30 am It's cool, but it will lure people with false hopes into a soggy adventure... already reminding folks that water is more dangerous than postholing right now...
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Re: Caltopo Adds Weekly High Res Sat Images
That's pretty cool. You can also go directly to the Sentinel site and by clicking on "Effects" you can have it show the date the imagery was captured superimposed over terrain and by clicking on the calendar you can change the view to various dates:
https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel- ... Dates=true
https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel- ... Dates=true
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Re: Caltopo Adds Weekly High Res Sat Images
Thanks! I can't be the only one eagerly awaiting the 6/26 update for a few places I'm looking at for the holiday weekend.SirBC wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:00 am That's pretty cool. You can also go directly to the Sentinel site and it by clicking on "Effects" you can have it show the date the imagery was captured superimposed over terrain and by click on the calendar you can change the view to various dates:
https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel- ... Dates=true
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Re: Caltopo Adds Weekly High Res Sat Images
Weird. I was playing with CalTopo today, stumbled on this, and posted to the snow resources sticky thread wondering why no one had mentioned it. I had no idea it just went live yesterday! I like pinning both the topo and satellite layers so you can use the opacity slider to fade between snow and topo/trails:
https://caltopo.com/map.html?fbclid=IwA ... 0.42&a=mba
https://caltopo.com/map.html?fbclid=IwA ... 0.42&a=mba
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Re: Caltopo Adds Weekly High Res Sat Images
I'm former SAR, and rescue people on a regular basis while out and about doing other things. Realists clash with rabid optimists frequently.c9h13no3 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2019 9:58 amYou're such a ray of sunshine.AlmostThere wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2019 9:30 am It's cool, but it will lure people with false hopes into a soggy adventure... already reminding folks that water is more dangerous than postholing right now...
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