buichaille etive mor in flickr [video]

a 3d animation of the Flickr photography of Buichaille Etive Mor in Glencoe, one of the most photographed mountains in Scotland.

 

Demonstrated today at the Society Of Cartographers Summer School 2014.

 

The camera flies through the four most common locations that people take photos from - in turn, "the white house", "the Kings Hotel", the head of Glen Etive, and "the tree" - and gives a rough idea of the composition from each location.

 

Done using Flickr API, QGIS and Blender. Overlay is copyright OpenStreetMap and its contributors (used the OpenLayers plugin and the OCM terrain layer).

 

Elevation model is from Ordnance Survey Open Terrain 50, Crown Copyright and Database rights 2014.

 

Note: the elevation exaggeration is not exact. The camera is nominally 20mm focal distance but I've yet to find a way to make the vertical exaggeration correct.

 

 

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