.... which highlights everything in your line of sight from where you are standing.
Imagine being on Cleveland Dam's west side taking in the sights of the lake, mountains too, but missing out on the benefits of being able to see the contours of the forest, dramatically.
Viewshed provides that depth, and more.
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Tree branches included? Yes. How? Satellites!? Creepy
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And for those way up there, waving their lights, looking for help, need to be in the green to be seen
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Not many places to go to be seen on the west
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Use Google Viewshed to see a placemark surroundings
Explore 360-degree views of an area for building locations, real estate evaluations, advertisement placement, and other business planning with Viewshed. Viewshed is not designed for scientific precision and isn’t intended to be used as a definitive data source.
Viewshed highlights everything in your line of sight from a placemark location:
Higher elevations often display greater visible areas.
If your results don’t look correct, your altitude might be too low or your placemark might be inside a building. Try increasing your altitude, then click Show Viewshed again.
To include 3D models or layers that you connect to or upload, connect to the Google Maps Engine terrain layer.
See 360-degrees around a placemark
Select a placemark. Then, right-click the placemark.
Click Get Info and then Altitude and adjust the altitude so that it's at least approximately two meters above the surface, then click OK.
From either the "Edit" menu or the placemark’s right-click menu, select Show Viewshed.
Visible areas are highlighted green and non-visible areas are gray.
