WhatThePeak

A few years ago, I was driving through Northern California, and I wondered what a particular mountain off in the distance was.

This gave me the idea to write an iPhone application that would triangulate a distant object based on the intersection of two points.

WhatThePeak is that application.

Download WhatThePeak in the iTunes App Store.

Usage is simple: line up the crosshairs on the object you’re interested in from one point and set the bearing, then go down the road a distance and repeat the process. The intersection is calculated and plotted on a map.

For support information, comments, questions, and complaints use WhatThePeak@isbroken.com

I’ve written a post on the math that makes WhatThePeak work.

Taking the first bearing:

Once the second bearing is taken, the intersection is plotted on the map: