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Call for Glossary items.
#3092 03/19/10 01:50 PM
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On another thread, the terms Sastrugi or zastrugi came up.

Sounds like we could use a Glossary.

Please submit items with the word, brief definition and a suitable link.

Steve C, feel free to move to another forum if you like.


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wagga #3093 03/19/10 02:52 PM
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Glossary -- An alphabetical list of terms with definitions, usually at the end of a book or article.

Smartass -- A person with a sarcastic attitude who annoys the hell out of others.

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Re: Call for Glossary items.
wagga #3098 03/19/10 05:05 PM
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What I would love for a glossary is not with words but places! if any of you are like me and you stare at a topo thinking "hmm I wonder how nice this place is" and then I search over the net for images to get an idea if I would like to visit, it would be great to have a website that has every lake, mountain and general place in the Sierra listed so you could pull up images on it.

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RoguePhotonic #3100 03/19/10 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted By: RoguePhotonic
What I would love for a glossary is not with words but places! if any of you are like me and you stare at a topo thinking "hmm I wonder how nice this place is" and then I search over the net for images to get an idea if I would like to visit, it would be great to have a website that has every lake, mountain and general place in the Sierra listed so you could pull up images on it.


That's a gazetteer. Let's find out how Steve C feels about it.


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AlanK #3104 03/19/10 11:10 PM
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AlanK:

If your comment was personal, well, that's just not cricket.

Its difficult to know how to respond - given the anonymous nature of the intertubes. You could, in real life, be anything from an unemployed bricklayer to a rocket surgeon to a brain scientist. So, on here, on reflection, are my thoughts...

Every interesting forum has at least one smartass who irritates people into saying what they think, exploring new fields & expanding their world view.

Would you care to share the burden?

PS. Oz just put 4 consecutive maidens on the Kiwis, then 4 runs in an over then another 3 maidens. A most engrossing game...


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wagga #3105 03/19/10 11:11 PM
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Hmmm... A gazetteer with pictures of many places would be great.

But it seems like an absolutely huge job.... We would need lots of people participating with the objective of taking pictures of the significant places. I am sure there are pictures out there that would be good. But how to get the owners of the pictures to contribute? Tough job.

This software supports picture galleries, but the hosting service is stingy with disk space, so posting pictures within Whitney zone is not possible unless we moved it.

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Steve C #3106 03/19/10 11:40 PM
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We have lots of very smart people on this forum. Links to pictures are external. Let's experiment - chime in on Iceberg Lake & see what we can do.


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wagga #3109 03/20/10 05:48 AM
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wagga alone makes this forum worth the price of admission . . .

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wagga #3121 03/20/10 04:18 PM
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Yeah it would be a huge job, something that is probably better left to a website on it's own.

I considered the business aspect of making map software with total images like google earth where you could click along the JMT for example every 10 feet or so and be able to pan 360 of the view and have the entire trail done, I bet it would sell. =P

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RoguePhotonic #3132 03/20/10 09:50 PM
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> I bet it would sell

Hikealong Pete did that for the MMWT, and was selling dvd's.

I think Inyo NF was complaining about that though. On the other hand, I think the National Parks embrace filming within the parks.


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