Anagallis arvensis: "Tour U.S. National Parks in Google Earth," Virtual hiking or walking? Am seeking to facilitate a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking incl. #VirtualHiking from HOME in #GoogleStreetView * Virtual hiking or walking? Am seeking to facilitate a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking incl. #VirtualHiking from HOME in #GoogleStreetView https://twitter.com/rmbyrne/status/1232048856831078402?s=20. Visit Harbin Springs' gate - http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg #RealisticVirtualHarbin and "walk" down Harbin road "4 miles"to Middletown * * the idea of hikers and hillwalkers WIKI-contributing their own experiences in video and photos (via Google Glass Enterprise, for example) into something like Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth (with AllTrails)

Tour U.S. National Parks in Google Earth http://ow.ly/e0jg30qejnA

Tour U.S. National Parks in Google Earth https://t.co/dKEbm0P1VC

— Richard Byrne (@rmbyrne) February 24, 2020

https://twitter.com/rmbyrne/status/1232048856831078402

http://edtechfitness.com/tour-u-s-national-parks-in-google-earth/


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https://twitter.com/wareFLO/status/1203452418719133696?s=20…
https://twitter.com/CelebinsR/status/1212398336998809601?s=20…
https://twitter.com/TheHealthcareI1/status/1212747009246937088?s=20… ~
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TensorFlow CHIP #TPU#EdgeTPU for image recognition https://t.co/rZTdp1o2L7& #MachineLearning> #RealisticVirtualEarth#RealisticVirtualHarbin@HarbinBook for #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy new social science #ActualVirtual method https://t.co/oreALSQkjohttps://t.co/5XErd8NdXh ~

— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) February 2, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1224018799067721728?s=20


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Virtual hiking or walking? Am seeking to facilitate a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking incl. #VirtualHiking from HOME in #GoogleStreetView https://twitter.com/rmbyrne/status/1232048856831078402?s=20. Visit Harbin Springs' gate - http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg #RealisticVirtualHarbin and "walk" down Harbin road "4 miles"to Middletown

Virtual hiking or walking? Am seeking to facilitate a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking incl. #VirtualHiking from HOME in #GoogleStreetViewhttps://t.co/DWI2mTTuLa. visit Harbin Springs' gate> https://t.co/8F7i8x7dSD#RealisticVirtualHarbin& "walk" down Harbin road "4 miles"> town

— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) February 26, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1232529272528502785?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1232529490481299456?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1232530151751110657?s=20



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Virtual hiking or walking? Am seeking to facilitate a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking incl. #VirtualHiking from HOME in #GoogleStreetView https://twitter.com/rmbyrne/status/1232048856831078402?s=20. visit Harbin Springs' gate http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth & "walk" down Harbin road "4 miles"> town

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1232529969227522048?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1232530212224561153?s=20




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Hi Lukas,

I just updated this blog entry - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/11/peak-district-bill-gates-and-steve-jobs.html - with your information.

Do you have a LinkedIn profile? (Mine is https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgkmacleod/)
In the meantime, it's with regards to the idea of hikers and hillwalkers WIKI-contributing their own experiences in video and photos (via Google Glass Enterprise, for example) into something like Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth (with AllTrails) that could make all the hikes  that 10 Adventures offers accessible by other people, including disabled people (and created in part, too, by your hikers). (I'm calling this process of wiki-adding to a virtual world ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, eg see https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/11/waters-36-slides-from-uc-berkeley-talk.html - and see the 'label' for this in my blog too). It would be great to communicate further about how some of this could work.  It might be something 10 Adventures could even reach out to prospective hikers for your organized trips with - the opportunity via a kind of community service to help create the hikes you offer virtually. Hikers might love this, - and spread out all over the globe doing this (including esp. on 10 Adventures' trips).
Kind regards, Scott

PS some related recent Tweets:

Virtual hiking or walking? Am seeking to facilitate a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking incl. #VirtualHiking from HOME in #GoogleStreetView https://twitter.com/rmbyrne/status/1232048856831078402?s=20. visit Harbin Springs' gate> http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg #RealisticVirtualHarbin & "walk" down Harbin road "4 miles"> town

Virtual hiking or walking? Am seeking to facilitate a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking incl. #VirtualHiking from HOME in #GoogleStreetViewhttps://t.co/Vxs2dP6Tqh. visit Harbin Springs' gate> https://t.co/dHWQmnrQPY#RealisticVirtualHarbin& "walk" down Harbin road "4 miles"> town

— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) February 26, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1232529272528502785?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1232529490481299456?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1232530151751110657?s=20

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Virtual hiking or walking? Am seeking to facilitate a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking incl. #VirtualHiking from HOME in #GoogleStreetView https://twitter.com/rmbyrne/status/1232048856831078402?s=20. visit Harbin Springs' gate http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth & "walk" down Harbin road "4 miles"> town

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1232529969227522048?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1232530212224561153?s=20



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Lukas Saville
9:27 AM (26 minutes ago)
to me

Hey Scott,

Thanks for getting back to me. So firstly, the Veggie Vegabonds isn't me :) I have had a chat with them some time ago, but those are two different entities on the web. Mine is 10Adventures.com. I use the .co email as I email a lot, and I use the .com one just for internal stuff mainly.

This is actually the link I was hoping you might want to have a look at https://www.10adventures.com/hikes/peak-district-national-park/. And I was hoping you might want to link to it. This would be a huge help to boost this region higher on Google.

As for your ideas, I do like the idea of being able to experience the whole trail in VR. Or just to walk it on the screen. I think it would help people who want to know what to expect. It might not be suitable for those who like surprises. My wife has a fear of exposure and sometimes we don't know if she can go on a hike as sometimes we read comments about exposure but we don't know how bad it is. So there's a risk to get stuck on trails that way. But, saying that, on 10Adventures, each route has been created by real people. That's actually what we are promoting. Instead of putting the routes together by looking at google or other maps, sitting at home, never doing them ourselves, the collaborators we found and the guys at 10Adventures personally have hiked these routes and recorded the GPS. So in a way, I think your idea is useful, but then it also allows everyone to appear as an expert for all the trails, without any real knowledge about the real deal.

An example is Alltrails.com. The route descriptions are autogenerated. And they rely completely on the comments of people who update the route information. But not all routes are popular or have even been walked by someone. this means, if you pick a route on that website, you rely on someone creating the route (possibly auto-creating the GPS too) and auto-created text about the terrain. This might not be the most reliable way of hiking, especially talking about the more difficult trails.

But, I do imagine your idea would be great. I imagine it would be awesome to have for each route, so people could do a test walk on their computer before choosing to do that trail.

Well, please let me know what you think about the Peak District guide. I would really appreciate it, and it would really help me a lot if you'd link to it. But I will fully understand if you are not interested.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
Lukas
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Info WorldUniversity
Feb 25, 2020, 8:45 PM (13 hours ago)
to Lukas

Hi, Lukas,

Thanks for your email. Is this you - https://veggievagabonds.com/yosemite-national-park-hiking-trails/? Photos in my daily blog posts are sometimes related to their content, sometimes not. Am happy to add a link to your guide to this blog post (but I don't think the post has that many readers). Please send the link and I'll add it.

With regard to your '10adventures.co' hillwalking project - https://www.10adventures.com/our-contributors/#lukass - am curious what you're observing about virtual hiking or walking. Am seeking to facilitate a realistic virtual earth for everything including virtual hiking from home, for example, and with regards to, for example, Google Street View - https://twitter.com/rmbyrne/status/1232048856831078402?s=20. Will we be able to hike all 2650 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail or through the Peak District on an elliptical, and from home, in a digital mask? To be seen ... (Much of this emerges from my actual-virtual, physical digital Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project, and visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gate here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ and "walk" down the road "4 miles" to Middletown, CA (accessible from https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~).

And will hikers be able to add to this developing realistic virtual earth (think Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth +) with something like Google Glass Enterprise (see below).

Regards, and cheers,
Scott

3 COMPUTERS per person, all 7.5 billion people? https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/antarctica-mcmurdo-bay-merry-christmas.html ~ & while traveling too (way beyond #GoogleGlass too)? 1 #ComputerGlasses (to visit #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook behind lenses) 2 SmartPhone, 3 Laptop (MacBook Air?) or Tablet https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University ~

3 COMPUTERS per person, all 7.5 billion people? https://t.co/GM69pHMTH7 ~ & while traveling too (way beyond #GoogleGlass too)? 1 #ComputerGlasses (to visit #RealisticVirtualHarbin@HarbinBook behind lenses) 2 SmartPhone, 3 Laptop (MacBook Air?) or Tablet https://t.co/ClkQ3zjRcL ~

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) January 6, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1214226795123232777?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1214227509476118532?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1214227727626096640?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1214228600401973248?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1214229500227022848?s=20
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Lukas Saville
Feb 25, 2020, 11:42 AM (22 hours ago)
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Hi Scott,

I am writing to you regarding your article "Peak District: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were pretty good friends", which I have found here: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/11/peak-district-bill-gates-and-steve-jobs.html. I thought it's great.

In this article, you have mentioned The Peak District. I have actually written a detailed and accurate region guide about The Peak District, that I would love to show to you. I think it has all the information about each trail, thorough route guides, and even GPS coordinates anyone can download for free.

I was hoping you might be interested in seeing it. And I also wanted to ask, is there anything I could do that would make you consider linking to my guide about The Peak District?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards,
Lukas
10Adventures.com




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How are you, Candace? And where are you- and after all your perambulations? Am thinking further about virtual National Park hiking, or virtual hiking, and especially after further talking with Alden Smith ' 07 at a Thirsty Thursday in SF (thanks, too, to Dieter '01 above for convening this). Are you the head of the National Park Service, Candace '96, and based out of Death Valley NP, by any chance? :) ... or right up there at least :)
And in what ways, Candace, might we explore hikers in Death Valley NP, and even with Google Glass Enterprise, with the TensorFlow chip (semiconductor) for images and working with Google TensorFlow AI software, while hiking and streaming video and images into Google Street View with time slider from the field? (Am currently emailing about this with 10 Adventures' Lukas Savella, originally from Lithuania, as well).

And in a related vein, brainstorming-wise, could we combine the above with keying flower species biologically with an App like this - in Death Valley NP:

Could this App that 'helps the visually impaired identify surroundings' with voice https://twitter.com/Paula_Piccard/status/1231771870514384896?s=20 be beginnings of 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth for DATA -& in recognizing hibiscus, labradors & pineapple & fruit, keying ALL 3-100mil. SPECIES  #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies?

Could this App that 'helps the visually impaired identify surroundings' with voice https://t.co/OTAjD8KGtr be beginnings of 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth for DATA -& in recognizing hibiscus, labradors & pineapple & fruit, keying ALL 3-100mil. SPECIES #RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies?

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) February 25, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1232413162747523072?s=20

Reed best regards, Scott

How to connect the dots, and invite travellers to help connect the dots with data from their journey?

Reed regards, Scott



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