PeakVisor

3D Maps & Peaks Identification

6 followers

3D Maps & Peaks Identification

6 followers

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PeakVisor will make you a superhero of outdoors navigation by putting state-of-the-art 3D maps and mountain identification in the palm of your hand.

Launch tags:Android•iOS•Travel

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PeakVisor

Maker

Hi ProductHunt community! First of all, huge thanks to @kwdinc for hunting us! PeakVisor is an augmented reality app which answers the most common question in the mountains. What that mountain is?! Probably, it will be able to answer other questions soon ;-) Here’s how it works: 1. You point the phone camera at mountains 2. PeakVisor labels all the peaks 3. PeakVisor renders semi-transparent terrain model, so you could adjust & calibrate phone sensors That's it! Here are some details about our PeakVisor journey (a quick read): https://medium.com/@denivipmedia... We’d love to hear your comments and feedback! Thank you!

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9yr ago

Prelaunch.com

@denivipmedia in what counties does this work?

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9yr ago

PeakVisor

Maker

@narek_vardanyan It works in all the countries. At least if there are mountains.

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9yr ago

PeakVisor

Maker

@narek_vardanyan here is a map of all the peaks on the Earth (which we know) :-)

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9yr ago

Prelaunch.com

@denivipmedia thanks, I will use it :)

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9yr ago

Social Anxiety App

No more relying on my mountaineering father to school me! haha. Great looking product, definitely gonna give it a whirl. Only see meters in vid and pics. Is there an option to change for us yanks to use ft?

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9yr ago

PeakVisor

Maker

@jaicrum Thank you! Your father would love to have such a solid confirmation ;-)

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9yr ago

PeakVisor

Maker

@jaicrum We use the distance units as they are setup in phone system settings (locale). General -> Language & Region - > Region Formats. If you have the US there when you will see ft. Could it be that you have any other country in that place?

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9yr ago

Social Anxiety App

@denivipmedia Gotcha, currently in Brazil and configs are set for here to help me practice Portuguese :)

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9yr ago

PeakVisor

Maker

@jaicrum Well, then it will help you a little bit with metrics system as well. Which is quite popular in the countries where they speak Portuguese :-)

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9yr ago

Flystein

Looks nice! It would be great to show some other information as well. Obviously, mountain huts :) Maybe major attractions. Have you thought about that? Any plans?

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9yr ago

PeakVisor

Maker

@flighthack We plan to add mountain huts in the next release (a couple of weeks from now). Didn't think about attractions, but I agree that it might be interesting to see some special things. For example, here in Europe we often have castles in the mountains and it might be useful to see them as well.

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9yr ago

Monito

Looking forward to test this in on android ;-) ! Congrats for being (almost) featured in Forbes and the New York Times ;-)

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9yr ago

Monito

Also, there's a small typo on the image of your homepage, it's not the "Dent Blance" but the "Dent Blanche".

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9yr ago

PeakVisor

Maker

@pbriod ooops... I think this should have been hidden from the website :-) Praying they fix it soon :-)

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9yr ago

PeakVisor

Maker

@pbriod So true. Luckily, in the app database it is spelled correctly. Only Photoshop wasn't aware in this case :-)

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9yr ago

PeakVisor

Maker

@pbriod Please send me an email on denis@routes.tips is you'd like to be one of the first to get the Android version. It should be ready in several weeks.

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9yr ago

Monito

@denivipmedia I actually really like the quotes, it's a bold move, but I like it ;-)

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9yr ago

Looks like a very cool and useful app :) I am assuming you are using geonames as the peaks repository? What database are you using for the mountain overlays (terrain model)? I really like that this can be used to calibrate the sensors, as this is usually an issue with the accuracy of the phone's compasses...

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9yr ago

PeakVisor

Maker

@casaout Hi Andre, yes, geonames is one of the sources. Actually, we have a vast collection of points of interest which is being updated regularly. We crawl Wikipedia, geonames, OpenStreetMap data for the Routes.Tips project (all POIs on a map). Here we use a subset of that collection: only peaks. For the terrain, there are public datasets of terrain altitudes wich we use to create a 3D landscape model. Finally, everything comes together as an augmented reality :-) The biggest challenge is to render high precision 3D model on older devices and deal with sensor measurements inconsistencies.

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9yr ago

Do you have to be in an area where you get data? I am assume that you do, but would be awesome if you didn't, since in my area I loose coverage quickly when I get out in the mountains.

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9yr ago

PeakVisor

Maker

@aaron_payne The app works offline, just be sure to download the mountain region before you go out ;-)

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9yr ago

Looks interesting, but is Northern Europe included? Searching for the highest peaks in Scandinavia using the web viewer, yields nothing but a blue screen..

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9yr ago

PeakVisor

Maker

@askielboe Hi Andreas, the web viewer was updated tonight. The iOS app is ahead of Android and Web :-) Here is the highest point of the Scandes (Galdhøpiggen, 2469m)=> https://peakvisor.com/panorama.h... The web version doesn't label the peaks, but iOS does that for sure. To sum up, there are peaks from all over the world in the app. And, not only the peaks soon ;-)

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9yr ago

@denivipmedia Cool! Hope to see more Scandinavian mountains in the future. :)

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9yr ago

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