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Panoramascope iPhone application
Panoramascope
$4.99
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Description
- Category:
- Navigation
- Release Date:
- May 22, 2009
- Homepage:
- http://panoramascope.c...
- Publisher:
- Phil Endecott
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iPhone users can take a photo and line it up with the computed view. On the iPod touch this can be done with photos from the photo library.
Names of mountain peaks and other locations can also be superimposed on the drawing by downloading additional "layers". Coverage quality varies around the world; see panoramascope.com for details.
So the Panoramascope helps you decide which viewpoint will have the best view, and when you get there - or when you get home and study your photos - it helps you identify exactly what you're looking at.
The Panoramascope's best views are in hilly or mountainous terrain, so it will be of most interest to hill walkers, skiers and others visiting upland areas. In flatter parts of the world the skyline is less interesting, but layers including tourist attractions, pubs and restaurants are available; for example, it might help identify the view from the Eiffel Tower!
Terrain data is downloaded as needed, so a network connection is normally required. However if you expect to have no network coverage it's possible to pre-load this data from your area of interest.
Please visit panoramascope.com for a tour of all of the Panoramascope's features, more screenshots, and answers to many questions.
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amateur astronomy dark-sky site planning tool
By:
horizon viewer
Version: 1.2
Good planning tool for evaluating the horizon view from a potential dark-sky observing site. Please see my review under the Topo Maps App. Panoramascope integrates well with Topo Maps, does what it says it will do, and is useful before driving hours to a dark-sky site.
Finally answers "What is that?"
By:
Cjones-CU
Version: 1.2
Pretty unique app showing ridgelines visible from a spot with peaks and/or towns IDed. Can drop a photo in to match things up if you have trouble seeing matches holding phone up. Can choose an arbitrary spot to see what you could see. Also can download data for offline use. Biggest down side right now is that peaks over the horizon are named even though invisible-can make things really ugly if looking towards a distant peak with more behind it. (Addition of US peak list gets rid of main earlier objection to peak utility in US).
Like a wireframe version of Google Streetview for indentifying hills. Nifty!
By:
deslock
Version: 1.2
I've found this and Topo Maps (another of the developer's apps) to be very useful when hiking. Also note that when I contacted the author with suggestions, he was friendly and responsive.
A cool, well-executed app
By:
ToddAS
Version: 1.0.1
Panoramascope is a clever, well-designed app for answering one of life's eternal questions, "Hey, what's that mountain?" It quickly downloads terrain data (terrain data can also be preloaded for use when there's no cell signal...like in the mountains) and computes a representation of the 360 deg panorama from where you're standing. You can then easily scroll in, out, and around the panorama and label points with information from a variety of downloadable layer files. The developer has also thoughtfully included the ability to overlay an image over the panorama.
