Realistic viewing distance

[muskokaandtahoe]

IMO the correct answer depends, in part, on the route. You can see much, much further in dry deserts than you can in high humidity locations. And then there is the issue of whether or not the terrain is going to block the view anyway.

As most of the route running I do tends to be very dry with flat terrain I set my view distance at 10,000m, In one route I have 100km DM and knowing the region very well I can attest that 100km is not at all too far.

So I think the only time when one answer fits all situations is when the PC simply cannot deal with anything further than a certain distance no matter what.

[Vince]

Yesterday I was sitting at my computer desk on 2nd floor and looking out the window could see mountains 80 miles away to the east near Lake Mead.

regards,

[R. Steele]

The last two posts reinforce my contention that OR needs a method/option to introduce "user selected" route specific options when loading explore/activities/timetables.

[cjakeman]

The last two posts reinforce my contention that OR needs a method/option to introduce "user selected" route specific options when loading explore/activities/timetables.

CoalsToNewcastle (Peter Newell) coded exactly this a little time back but it gave rise to some controversy. I think that was resolved, so perhaps this work can now be adopted.

[csx8851]

I run 3000m. I try to avoid putting too much strain on the GPU

[seagoon]

Yesterday I was sitting at my computer desk on 2nd floor and looking out the window could see mountains 80 miles away to the east near Lake Mead.

regards,

But you don't sit that high in a locomotive cab.

[advut]

Yesterday I was sitting at my computer desk on 2nd floor and looking out the window could see mountains 80 miles away to the east near Lake Mead.

regards,

Your house has set 'Distant Mountain Viewing Distance' at greater than 80 miles.

[niknak]

Your house has set 'Distant Mountain Viewing Distance' at greater than 80 miles.

Or a prankster has painted a mountain view on the window blinds.....