Ann: Hill proximity information

Quoted message said:

For any given hill you will get a sheet giving you the bearings and
distances to other hills. Ideal for printing out and taking with you
on your walks, so you can look at your sheet and identify the hills
with a degree of certainty.

Not being funny BUT my GPS already does that when I'm there (select
nearest waypoints) ! That's on the assumption that you've already got
the waypoints loaded for that area.

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Quoted message said:

For any given hill you will get a sheet giving you the bearings and
distances to other hills. Ideal for printing out and taking with you
on your walks, so you can look at your sheet and identify the hills
with a degree of certainty.

Not being funny BUT my GPS already does that when I'm there (select
nearest waypoints) ! That's on the assumption that you've already got
the waypoints loaded for that area.

Absolutely. But this is good for standing at the top and saying
"What's that hill" - you just look down the list (if you've sorted it
by bearing) and it's easy.

Jim

On 28 Jun 2005 07:17:50 -0700, "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]>
wrote:

|
| > For any given hill you will get a sheet giving you the bearings and
| > distances to other hills. Ideal for printing out and taking with you
| > on your walks, so you can look at your sheet and identify the hills
| > with a degree of certainty.
| >
|
| Not being funny BUT my GPS already does that when I'm there (select
| nearest waypoints) ! That's on the assumption that you've already got
| the waypoints loaded for that area.

My OS Explorer Map and ordinary compass do that without having to think
about entering waypoints.

My next GPS will *have* to the ability to easily enter 10 figure OS
National Grid waypoints on when the top of a hill, because I always end up
doing a different route than I planned. I rarely have more then the
vaguest plan which is subject to change on a whim. Interesting places,
and/or the weather, good or bad, etc. always divert my from any planned
route.

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On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:31:21 +0100, Jim Willsher <[email hidden]> wrote:

| On 28 Jun 2005 07:17:50 -0700, "[email hidden]"
| <[email hidden]> wrote:
|
| >
| >> For any given hill you will get a sheet giving you the bearings and
| >> distances to other hills. Ideal for printing out and taking with you
| >> on your walks, so you can look at your sheet and identify the hills
| >> with a degree of certainty.
| >>
| >
| >Not being funny BUT my GPS already does that when I'm there (select
| >nearest waypoints) ! That's on the assumption that you've already got
| >the waypoints loaded for that area.
| Absolutely. But this is good for standing at the top and saying
| "What's that hill" - you just look down the list (if you've sorted it
| by bearing) and it's easy.

If you *expected* to be on *that* hill.

--
Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> http://www.webshots.com
Thousands of wonderful professional photos for your Wallpaper and
Screensaver. also 200,000 amateur pics. Four new pics each day.

Dave Fawthrop said:

On 28 Jun 2005 07:17:50 -0700, "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]>
wrote:

|
| > For any given hill you will get a sheet giving you the bearings and
| > distances to other hills. Ideal for printing out and taking with you
| > on your walks, so you can look at your sheet and identify the hills
| > with a degree of certainty.
| >
|
| Not being funny BUT my GPS already does that when I'm there (select
| nearest waypoints) ! That's on the assumption that you've already got
| the waypoints loaded for that area.

My OS Explorer Map and ordinary compass do that without having to think
about entering waypoints.

My next GPS will *have* to the ability to easily enter 10 figure OS
National Grid waypoints on when the top of a hill, because I always end up
doing a different route than I planned. I rarely have more then the
vaguest plan which is subject to change on a whim. Interesting places,
and/or the weather, good or bad, etc. always divert my from any planned
route.

So...don't use it then!

Personally I find it very useful, as I can locate any visible hill
very quickly, even those which are off the edge of the current map
sheet. Given that visibility is often in excess of the 40-odd KM you
get on a standard Landranger, I'm not about to start carrying a
shelfload of OS maps just to be able to work out what a hill on the
horizon might be.

Jim

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Quoted message said:

On 28 Jun 2005 07:17:50 -0700, "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]>
wrote:

My next GPS will *have* to the ability to easily enter 10 figure OS
National Grid waypoints on when the top of a hill, because I always end
up
doing a different route than I planned. I rarely have more then the
vaguest plan which is subject to change on a whim. Interesting places,
and/or the weather, good or bad, etc. always divert my from any planned
route.

I've used a geko 101 whilst munro bagging for 18mths, 89 munros. Winter and
summer.

I walk route then if it's cloudy/poor visibilty I take a bearing and fire
in a feature or waypoint.
The GPS is just a 'backup'. I can't put routes in it and don't do it anyway.

I have only needed it for 'real' whilst in a 10ft visibilty blizzard twice.

Oreintating the map at the summit using a compass/features should give
you a good idea where 'that' summit is.

Nick

PS Still waiting for the Mio168 to drop below 200pounds then I'll get that
with
my Fugawi on it.

Jim Willsher said:

Dave Fawthrop said:

On 28 Jun 2005 07:17:50 -0700, "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]>
wrote:

|
| > For any given hill you will get a sheet giving you the bearings and
| > distances to other hills. Ideal for printing out and taking with you
| > on your walks, so you can look at your sheet and identify the hills
| > with a degree of certainty.
| >
|
| Not being funny BUT my GPS already does that when I'm there (select
| nearest waypoints) ! That's on the assumption that you've already got
| the waypoints loaded for that area.

My OS Explorer Map and ordinary compass do that without having to think
about entering waypoints.

My next GPS will *have* to the ability to easily enter 10 figure OS
National Grid waypoints on when the top of a hill, because I always end up
doing a different route than I planned. I rarely have more then the
vaguest plan which is subject to change on a whim. Interesting places,
and/or the weather, good or bad, etc. always divert my from any planned
route.

So...don't use it then!

Personally I find it very useful, as I can locate any visible hill
very quickly, even those which are off the edge of the current map
sheet. Given that visibility is often in excess of the 40-odd KM you
get on a standard Landranger, I'm not about to start carrying a
shelfload of OS maps just to be able to work out what a hill on the
horizon might be.

It sounds good to me, too, although I couldn't get it to work

"Query Failed : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the
manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the
right syntax to use near 'ASC' at line 1"

Hill Meallan nan Uan within 5km (and all the others I tried,
Using Firefox on Winedose. Same with Internet Exploder, though.

Trev

"Jim Willsher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hi All,

Just a quick announcment, if anyone is interested. I have recently
updated my website, and it now includes a facility to print "Hill
Proximity Information" for any hill.

For any given hill you will get a sheet giving you the bearings and
distances to other hills. Ideal for printing out and taking with you
on your walks, so you can look at your sheet and identify the hills
with a degree of certainty.

Very good, nice neat little tool, I would prefer the table sorted by the
bearing!

I built something very similar to this a couple of years back,
http://www.stuartstuart.fsnet.co.uk/hillwalking/distcalc.htm I primarily
developed it for myself to help identify hills on panoramas and photographs.

I then linked the table directly to the panorama. Take a look at the
foollwoing example
http://www.stuartstuart.fsnet.co.uk/hillwalking/pans/carnacoireboidheach.htm
(650K) (and It only works in IE) Click on part of the image and a table
giving all possible hills in that direction is shown. Quite accurate
although the panorama stitching software corrupts the image and can give
inaccuracies up to 1.5°

The image was taken on Sunday from the top of Carn a Coirre Boidheach (just
west of Lochnagar)

Stuart said:

I then linked the table directly to the panorama. Take a look at the
foollwoing example
http://www.stuartstuart.fsnet.co.uk/hillwalking/pans/carnacoireboidheach.htm
(650K) (and It only works in IE)

Not so - works nicely on Linux / Firefox 1.0.4 for me.

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pjk

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Quoted message said:

Stuart said:

I then linked the table directly to the panorama. Take a look at the
foollwoing example

http://www.stuartstuart.fsnet.co.uk/hillwalking/pans/carnacoireboidheach.htm

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

(650K) (and It only works in IE)

Not so - works nicely on Linux / Firefox 1.0.4 for me.

--

So it does, I must of made it "getElementById" Mozilla stuff compatable at
some point! quite easy really, just takes twice as long as you have to write
the bulk of your code again in another language, and then debug the lot!
...... the joys of client side scripting!

It definately won't work in netscape 4 or earlier...... caus i didn't write
the code for that nasty little browser!

On 28 Jun 2005 17:34:59 GMT, Nobody Here <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Jim Willsher said:

Dave Fawthrop said:

On 28 Jun 2005 07:17:50 -0700, "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]>
wrote:

|
| > For any given hill you will get a sheet giving you the bearings and
| > distances to other hills. Ideal for printing out and taking with you
| > on your walks, so you can look at your sheet and identify the hills
| > with a degree of certainty.
| >
|
| Not being funny BUT my GPS already does that when I'm there (select
| nearest waypoints) ! That's on the assumption that you've already got
| the waypoints loaded for that area.

My OS Explorer Map and ordinary compass do that without having to think
about entering waypoints.

My next GPS will *have* to the ability to easily enter 10 figure OS
National Grid waypoints on when the top of a hill, because I always end up
doing a different route than I planned. I rarely have more then the
vaguest plan which is subject to change on a whim. Interesting places,
and/or the weather, good or bad, etc. always divert my from any planned
route.

So...don't use it then!

Personally I find it very useful, as I can locate any visible hill
very quickly, even those which are off the edge of the current map
sheet. Given that visibility is often in excess of the 40-odd KM you
get on a standard Landranger, I'm not about to start carrying a
shelfload of OS maps just to be able to work out what a hill on the
horizon might be.

It sounds good to me, too, although I couldn't get it to work

"Query Failed : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the
manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the
right syntax to use near 'ASC' at line 1"

Hill Meallan nan Uan within 5km (and all the others I tried,
Using Firefox on Winedose. Same with Internet Exploder, though.

Trev

Yes, apologies for that. How embarassing. I was tweaking some other
parts of the site, like Google Maps, and messed this up. It's sorted
now....

Jim

Stuart said:

"Jim Willsher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Hi All,

Just a quick announcment, if anyone is interested. I have recently
updated my website, and it now includes a facility to print "Hill
Proximity Information" for any hill.

For any given hill you will get a sheet giving you the bearings and
distances to other hills. Ideal for printing out and taking with you
on your walks, so you can look at your sheet and identify the hills
with a degree of certainty.

Very good, nice neat little tool, I would prefer the table sorted by the
bearing!

I built something very similar to this a couple of years back,
http://www.stuartstuart.fsnet.co.uk/hillwalking/distcalc.htm I primarily
developed it for myself to help identify hills on panoramas and photographs.

I then linked the table directly to the panorama. Take a look at the
foollwoing example
http://www.stuartstuart.fsnet.co.uk/hillwalking/pans/carnacoireboidheach.htm
(650K) (and It only works in IE) Click on part of the image and a table
giving all possible hills in that direction is shown. Quite accurate
although the panorama stitching software corrupts the image and can give
inaccuracies up to 1.5°

The image was taken on Sunday from the top of Carn a Coirre Boidheach (just
west of Lochnagar)

Just click a column heading the change (or reverse) the sort. The PDF
is generated which whichever sort/criteria you currently have.

Jim

Jim Willsher said:

On 28 Jun 2005 17:34:59 GMT, Nobody Here <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Jim Willsher said:

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:47:01 +0100, Dave Fawthrop
<[email hidden]> wrote:

>On 28 Jun 2005 07:17:50 -0700, "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]>
>wrote:
>
>|
>| > For any given hill you will get a sheet giving you the bearings and
>| > distances to other hills. Ideal for printing out and taking with you
>| > on your walks, so you can look at your sheet and identify the hills
>| > with a degree of certainty.
>| >
>|
>| Not being funny BUT my GPS already does that when I'm there (select
>| nearest waypoints) ! That's on the assumption that you've already got
>| the waypoints loaded for that area.
>
>My OS Explorer Map and ordinary compass do that without having to think
>about entering waypoints.
>
>My next GPS will *have* to the ability to easily enter 10 figure OS
>National Grid waypoints on when the top of a hill, because I always end up
>doing a different route than I planned. I rarely have more then the
>vaguest plan which is subject to change on a whim. Interesting places,
>and/or the weather, good or bad, etc. always divert my from any planned
>route.

So...don't use it then!

Personally I find it very useful, as I can locate any visible hill
very quickly, even those which are off the edge of the current map
sheet. Given that visibility is often in excess of the 40-odd KM you
get on a standard Landranger, I'm not about to start carrying a
shelfload of OS maps just to be able to work out what a hill on the
horizon might be.

It sounds good to me, too, although I couldn't get it to work

"Query Failed : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the
manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the
right syntax to use near 'ASC' at line 1"

Hill Meallan nan Uan within 5km (and all the others I tried,
Using Firefox on Winedose. Same with Internet Exploder, though.

Yes, apologies for that. How embarassing. I was tweaking some other
parts of the site, like Google Maps, and messed this up. It's sorted
now....

Yes, works now, and I like it. Nw do it for the Yorkshire Dales, and
I'll actually use it :-) I'm not sure that the naysayers actually
understood either what it does or the point.

--
Nobby