Wednesday, February 26, 2020

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

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

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


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3 COMPUTERS /person? #ComputerGlasses https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/01/outback-3-computers-per-person-all-75.html… #RealisticVirtualHarbin #Healthcare #GoogleGlass #GooglesARgoggles #GlassEnterpriseEdition #AR #wearables #IoT #AugmentedReality #AI #VR #robot
https://twitter.com/wareFLO/status/1203452418719133696?s=20…
https://twitter.com/CelebinsR/status/1212398336998809601?s=20…
https://twitter.com/TheHealthcareI1/status/1212747009246937088?s=20… ~
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1214617372264284160?s=20


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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


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


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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Best regards

Lukas

http://www.10adventures.com



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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 ~


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
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1214229965274632192?s=20


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Lukas Saville
Feb 25, 2020, 11:42 AM (22 hours ago)
to me

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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Hey Candace, (Alden, Dieter and Lukas/Mindaugas),

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 :)

I just came across Maine-r Richard Byrne's "How to Measure Distance & Share Views in Google Earth" - https://youtu.be/zwDmWFOYc4o - on Twitter ... "Tour U.S. National Parks in Google Earth" - https://twitter.com/rmbyrne/status/1232048856831078402?s=20  (https://www.blog.google/products/earth/visit-us-national-parks-google-earth/ and http://edtechfitness.com/tour-u-s-national-parks-in-google-earth/) - and it made me wonder further about your and my conversation concerning virtual hiking in Death Valley NP, - and even for the benefits of movement on elliptical machines etc. from home. Alden had mentioned the word "effort" regarding what's involved in visiting places (re tourism), as we talked at the Reed College Thirsty Thursday, and I find this interesting since one definition of tourism per MacCannell, p.42, relates to "For the purposes of this paper, tourism can be defined as visiting marked sites, often involving travel, or more specifically, following offsite markers to onsite markers" - http://scottmacleod.com/anth250v.htm (and https://www.academia.edu/15259682/Gazing_at_the_Box_Tourism_in_the_Context_of_the_Internet_and_Globalization_Internetity_ ). So if one explores further, regarding a kind of social theory of tourism, the idea of effort as part of visiting places, and in lieu of traveling even, it seems possible to generate effort from home on elliptical machines. If one were viewing sites in a digital mask, or the back of one's glasses, I'd posit that this is a touristic experience as well. So how to generate such virtual touristic experiences further - and from the field?

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?



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

Reed best regards, Scott



Alden, 

Explored about "home movement," or "effort" to use your word, for example, when virtually travelling in Google Street View in a digital mask, in 2018, and regarding elliptical machines, treadmills etc here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/ceres-dwarf-planet-thanks-astroedlu-for.html - but am further interested in, as we talked, about particularly the researching meditation in the Harbin warm pool from home virtually. 

More soon in an email to Candace. 

Nice to meet and talk with you at the Reed Thirsty Thursday recently. 

Regards, Scott




National Parks of the United States
How to connect the dots, and invite travellers to help connect the dots with data from their journey?

Where's your itinerary taking you next, Candace?

Reed regards, Scott



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Hi Scott,

thank you for adding the link, I really appreciate it.

This is my Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindau/. Don't get confused by the name, I use Lukas as, sadly, more people reply to that than my original name. I have sent you an invite on Linkedin.

I start to see a clearer picture of what you meant. I do find your idea interesting. 

Would you have a source with more explanation on that, so I could share it with the team? I would like to share this with my CEO and some contributors. I want to see if this is something that would interest us to participate in. As it's not entirely up to me to decide. 

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

Lukas


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Info WorldUniversity info@worlduniversityandschool.org

11:57 AM (14 minutes ago)
to mindaugas.savela, Lukas
Mindaugas/Lukas,

Thanks for your email, and LinkedIn. Currently these are just ideas (with much in my blog, but not organized around a business - and orchestrating the Google Glass Enterprise into Google Street View isn't 'there' yet that I know of), but will get back to you as soon as possible. 

Scott

MIT OCW-centric wiki Lithuania World Univ & Sch in Lithuanian will emerge from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and with free-to-students' online MIT OpenCourseWare-centric degrees (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages - where the Lithuanian language wiki subject page in Lithuanian will emerge).

When did you, Mindaugas, leave Lithuania (what year and how old were you)?  



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