Friend builds app to help find climbers lost in Peru(tomnod.com)

32 pointsby hamfvor 14 Jahren11 comments

Friend builds app to help find climbers lost in Peru

http://tomnod.com/gi/peru/

7 comments

Foyvor 14 Jahren

This is really cool except that I have no idea what any of these things would look like from a satellite image.

Could you possibly have "examples" of a base camp / avalanche / etc?

I can't tell if something is an avalanche or just a river / runoff.

Best of luck finding your friends!

emptyaccountvor 14 Jahren

http://tomnod.com/gi/peru/examples.php

hamfvor 14 Jahren

They aren't my friends. Thought it was very sad/interesting though.

leberwurstsaftvor 14 Jahren

I'm quite amazed that this is even possible to do, as it needs recent satellite imagery both from after they allegedly hiked there and from shortly before, to be able to make comparisons.

Is there some place where one can check the recency of all the available sources of satellite imagery from all over the world?

Stratoscopevor 14 Jahren

Sad news: the lost climbers, Gil and Ben, have been found dead. (See OP link for more.)

tymekpavelvor 14 Jahren

It'd be helpful if the navigation didn't obscure the entire top left corner of the map.

yaixvor 14 Jahren

You can drag it, just like Google Maps.

zachinglisvor 14 Jahren

This is great. Really clever idea.

But the Space bar for showing before/after doesn't work on Safari or Chrome.

brentvatnevor 14 Jahren

nowarninglabelvor 14 Jahren

I think you can actually, just x out of the sign up.

hoguvor 14 Jahren

space bar doesn't seem to work for me (ubuntu, firefox and chrome)