Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Photographing the D&SNGRR

This week I rediscovered just how useful Glass can be.  The situation was trip to Durango, Colorado to ride the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.

Use case #1:  Directions to the condo.  Navigation... no problem.  Actually, this is kinda ho-hum now. 

Use case #2:  Weather forecast.  With a 70% chance of rain forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday, it looked very likely that we'd get an uncomfortably wet trip.  Flash flood alerts were posted for most of that time.  With Glass, the weather radar app gave me a useful animation showing the storms and how they were moving.  It was many times faster than using NOAA, iMap, or browsing to the Weather Underground.