3D Mapping of Wire Pass

[Glenn]

Someone just sent me this link that has a 3D interactive map through part of Wire Pass. Very impressive.

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=Gy4scJWvjDZ

[Iceaxe]

That's pretty cool, it took me a minute to figure out how to navigate.

[skelley]

That is super cool. It would be great to have something like that with beta overlayed on it. Do you know how they made it?

[Glenn]

That is super cool. It would be great to have something like that with beta overlayed on it. Do you know how they made it?

They use a special digital camera with laser range finding built in. The camera costs $4500 and you also subscribe to a service that will store and process the 3D image data.

More info: http://matterport.com/

I'm particularly impressed with the UI, especially how the circle-cursor changes orientation along the slot walls.

[Iceaxe]

In a few more years and beta spayers will be able to add a digital 3D walkthrough to their route description. With the ability to add a video and Google Earth file we are almost already there.

I'm amazed how far things have advanced since I started Climb-Utah.com 17 years ago. Back than I had to be very careful about adding pictures as most folks were on dial-up connections. It would often take over a minute for one of my maps to load.