I was just curious how many other people use this wonderful tool to scout the terrain they ride, like when you see a cool place off in the distance, do you use google earth to find how to get there?
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I was just curious how many other people use this wonderful tool to scout the terrain they ride, like when you see a cool place off in the distance, do you use google earth to find how to get there?
GPS will be much more accurate. Google Earth runs off of query based on the 3D version of the DEM (Digital Elevation Model), although it may look very accurate to what you may be climbing, it is only a rough guess calculating the features based on reading from a satelite only, not nearly as accurate as using a GPS reciever on the ground using WAAS enabled or real time correcting.We Google Earth everything we climb and scout new areas. In fact, our new movie TS7 will have all major chutes logged by Google Earth in terms of vertical climbed, total distance climbed, etc... Nice little tool! Although. . . One climb in particular was measured by GPS (helicopter altimeter) the day of the climb. . . 2460 feet of vertical. Google Earth is saying it is only 2200. . . Wonder which is more accurate? Anyway, great tool, we use it often!!!
JIM
I love it!! I have definitly found some great new places with it, but also I have found places on there I wanted to go, then went there in real life and said. fk that!! It can be misleading for sure. Things that dont look that steep or tight on there, can be pretty crazy for real.
Good tool to help you daydream at work.
OK, here's an idea. What if Snowest started offering GoogleEarth overlays. If your on GE, you will see some sponsors of site data. Heck, the bigfoot group offers place markers of every bigfoot sighting along with a report. I don't know why snowest couldn't offer up the same kind of data.
All the groomed trails could be placed. Some "secret" bowls and access route. Movie locations. The data could be downloaded as a KML file, that could easily be turned into a route and uploaded to your GPS.
This along with user pictures and names for different hills. And, some personal route recordings. Really make planning a trip a lot easier.
I know a lot of peeps wouldn't give up their spot, but they might give up some old leftovers for the rest of us.
If people thought it was a good idea, I won't mind heading up such a project, with help of course. Or, does this data already exist somewhere????
Wade