Virtually Climb El Capitan With Google's First Vertical Street View 32
mpicpp writes: Google Maps is incorporating its first vertical Street View by allowing users to virtually climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. To capture the 3,000-foot ascent up El Capitan Google relied on the skills of mountain climbers Lynn Hill, Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell. "People around the world will now be able to virtually experience the unique act of ascending a 3,000-foot cliff by going on a self-directed, vertical climb," the Mountain View, Calif., company said.
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No, because you would die [globalnews.ca].
Why "No"?
Deliberate Apple tie-in? (Score:3)
Did they pick this on purpose because of the forthcoming OSX release?
Re:Deliberate Apple tie-in? (Score:5, Informative)
Climbing and Street View (Score:5, Funny)
Had me thinking of something completely different [youtube.com].
Had me thinking I will see this on the way up (Score:1)
Actual Street View link here (Score:5, Informative)
https://www.google.com/maps/@3... [google.com]
TFA doesn't link to it, so I had to some additional mouse clicking and text parsing to find it.
pass (Score:1)
I'm waiting for the Google Elevator
My first girlfriend (Score:2)
Note quite like the real thing... (Score:3)
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Of those 3 watching porn is definitely better than being in love. Now when will I be able to get a 3d printed sex bot?
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As someone who has climbed El Cap 4 times, I can say that it's not going to feel quite the same watching it in 3D than to actually do it.
As someone who has climbed El Cap 0 times, I can say that it's not going to feel quite the same watching it in 3D than to actually do it.
Errr drones (Score:1)
Wouldn't it of been easier to fly a drone up the face? Would make it easier to get a full 3d map of every face of the mountain inc the bits normal climbers can't climb.
cool idea, but poorly done (Score:1)
I checked it out, and didn't feel it was very well done. I understand getting all the photos is nowhere near as easy as it is on a street, but there are too few photos to make it a good experience. When you click somewhere, you jump so far that you really can't tell where you progressed to 90% of the time. It just feels like you jumped to a different random photo. Then when I was at the top (which is still sloped, but nowhere near vertical), I clicked around a few time. Several time I clicked somewhere that
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Agreed. As a climber (haven't done El Cap yet, but have done some long Valley climbs), this is pretty lame. The distance between the images is way too far. I want a real, seamless view that I can follow up a route and see all the details. I want to be able to look at the rock, turn the camera and see all around. Look up, look down, find the next hold, see where my feet would be. You know, all the stuff that makes climbing fun.
Trip reports on Supertopo (www.supertopo.com) are way better than this if you want
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I'm a total nerd and love technology been a huge linux nerd since 1994 kernel 1.0.9 when nobody knew what linux was etc.
Always liked Google as they came about over the years and have grown into what they are today.
But ... Fuck that. I'm sick and tired of everything being virtualized and no one getting off their ass and doing something. i.e. go to fucking thing and climb it for yourself. End of story. If you aren't able to climb it, take a flight around it in a helicopter or remotely via drone... I have no cause to discriminate against those who are disabled or for whatever reason can't climb it -- there are solutions. Am I the only one thinking this?
Flame on if you want... I still say this is fucking stupid. End of rant.
LOL. I'm pretty sure the amount of people who actually WOULD climb that mountain but now will not because it is on google street view is precisely zero. Climbing a mountain is extremely difficult and takes a lot of practice. Getting to the stage where you can climb something like El Capitan safely takes many, many years of practice. This sort of street view thing is really only for the people who think "hmmm, that would be cool" and then 10 minutes later are on to something completely different.
And your who