An app that tells you how tall surrounding buildings are?

[jamesw]

Does anyone know of an app or website that shows the height of surrounding buildings?

This would be helpful for RTH and Intelligent Modes. It would be awesome to see an overlay on a map that highlighted buildings that were within a range of 100ft-400ft.

 

[Michael Ainsworth]

There have been a few posts and YouTube links about this.
Can't remember where but if you Google it you should find some info.
Somewhere in Google Earth there is a way to get a fairly good estimate of height.

 

[jamesw]

I haven't found anything like what I was looking for. If you come across any links, let me know!

Someone mentioned an app that helps you set the correct height for RTH based on your location.

 

[Michael Ainsworth]

Some useful tricks to calculate height of structure on Google Earth

 

[1dr1]

Try Hivemapper. Enter the location of interest and building heights are shown.

Also, you can use Google Earth. I don't have the exact steps for doing it, but draw a polygon, making sure it touches ground level. Then you choose relative height and move the polygon up to the height of the building of interest.

The Google Earth method is more accurate for buildings, but Hivemapper gives heights of power lines, antennas, etc.