ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Here are two I made earlier ... (I set the sample rate on the website to a sedate 0.4 fps, which is respected on the website, but movies seem to be saved at 1 fps regardless. I have now edited the files elsewhere to slow them down to the speed I wanted!)
A little hill called Birchliffe:
Another little hill, this one being the fearsome 'Mytholm Steeps':
@Littgull told me about Streetview Player. It lets you upload a route file in GPX/KML format (IN THE ADVANCED OPTIONS, BRIAN!!!
) and then connects to Streetview and plays through the route.
You can set the speed at which it plays (fps = frames per second).
The software seems to create one frame per point in your GPX/KML file. (It may add others too). If you want a very detailed look at your route, make sure that you place points every 50-100 metres on the road. Note that increased sample rate will make your movie files bigger.
I have just realised that the Streetview images seem to be adjusted to point in the direction of your plotted route lines. If you look at my movies above you can see a couple of places where my line pointed straight off the road on tight bends. If you want to see such bends properly, experiment with how you plot routes round them. [PS I improved the line of sight slightly when I edited the files, but the locations of the sample points are still not perfect.]
I found a few problems in Firefox but the software works nicely with the current version of Chrome.
You can play movies fullscreen on the website or choose to have the replay next to a map of the route. It is best to zoom the map out so you can watch the progress on the map and see where you are looking at in the replay. Saved movies only show the replay, not the map.
There is an option to export your movie to an animated GIF file, having chosen the dimensions of the GIF before doing so. My recent 100 mile forum ride route produced a GIF of about 60 MB for 512 x 512 pixels which was way too big for CycleChat (It waited until the entire file had been processed and then threw it away, displaying a security error!) I tried again with a file about 1/4 of the size but that was also too big. The limit seems to be about 2 MB. Ok, you will have to store big files elsewhere on t'Interweb and link to them, but for now I have produced a couple of short movie files at 350 x 350 pixels and uploaded them to illustrate the kind of thing you would end up with ...
Apart being a lot of fun, this is a great tool for checking your routes before riding them.
A little hill called Birchliffe:
Another little hill, this one being the fearsome 'Mytholm Steeps':
@Littgull told me about Streetview Player. It lets you upload a route file in GPX/KML format (IN THE ADVANCED OPTIONS, BRIAN!!!
) and then connects to Streetview and plays through the route.You can set the speed at which it plays (fps = frames per second).
The software seems to create one frame per point in your GPX/KML file. (It may add others too). If you want a very detailed look at your route, make sure that you place points every 50-100 metres on the road. Note that increased sample rate will make your movie files bigger.
I have just realised that the Streetview images seem to be adjusted to point in the direction of your plotted route lines. If you look at my movies above you can see a couple of places where my line pointed straight off the road on tight bends. If you want to see such bends properly, experiment with how you plot routes round them. [PS I improved the line of sight slightly when I edited the files, but the locations of the sample points are still not perfect.]
I found a few problems in Firefox but the software works nicely with the current version of Chrome.
You can play movies fullscreen on the website or choose to have the replay next to a map of the route. It is best to zoom the map out so you can watch the progress on the map and see where you are looking at in the replay. Saved movies only show the replay, not the map.
There is an option to export your movie to an animated GIF file, having chosen the dimensions of the GIF before doing so. My recent 100 mile forum ride route produced a GIF of about 60 MB for 512 x 512 pixels which was way too big for CycleChat (It waited until the entire file had been processed and then threw it away, displaying a security error!) I tried again with a file about 1/4 of the size but that was also too big. The limit seems to be about 2 MB. Ok, you will have to store big files elsewhere on t'Interweb and link to them, but for now I have produced a couple of short movie files at 350 x 350 pixels and uploaded them to illustrate the kind of thing you would end up with ...
Apart being a lot of fun, this is a great tool for checking your routes before riding them.
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I have some Android apps in the pipeline!
