Golden Gate Bridge

By:Randy Sargent (rsargent) on November 29, 2006
Tags: outside , california , bridge

Can you find the number of miles of cable it took to build the bridge? Speed limit on the bridge? Alcatraz?

Date Taken: November 29, 2006
Date Added: November 28, 2006
Bookmarked: 19 times
Total Views: 247647 views
Snapshots: 222
Size: 0.44 gigapixels
Field of View: 160.0 degrees wide, 30.3 degrees high

		January 28, 2007 22:32	Flag as inappropriate
		I remember Randy said it was windy when he took this picture. There are clues about that! Flag... Posted by illah

		December 4, 2007 14:59	Flag as inappropriate
		Wow, your placement in Google Earth is almost uncanny! Posted by Rebelfish

		February 23, 2008 19:25	Flag as inappropriate
		This picture is very humorous with all it's partially visible humans and objects. Posted by klebom

		April 30, 2008 13:44	Flag as inappropriate
		It will be really useful to have the author post technical details about this panorama. It would help identify the source of many errors like ghost humans and partially visible objects. Posted by giswizard

		April 30, 2008 23:29	Flag as inappropriate
		Actually this was taken by Randy using a Gigapan camera, and so the ghosting is happening precisely because each picture is taken at a different time, and so something can be partially in one frame, but the rest of it can be gone from the adjacent frame by the time that next, adjacent image is snapped. The stitcher (that Randy wrote!) then does a nice job of blending and lining things up anyway; but the partial objects are, in effect, in "motion" during the Gigapan acquisition process. Posted by illah

		May 17, 2008 07:04	Flag as inappropriate
		nice! Posted by MarcoLinori

		May 25, 2008 23:57	Flag as inappropriate
		Very nice Posted by payam195r

		August 28, 2008 21:56	Flag as inappropriate
		I love these types of gigapans! I really enjoy finding the double (or even triple) exposures of people as they travel. For instance, pink jacket lady is in the far right area coming out of the building but she is also in the far left area.... Posted by Rockmin

		January 25, 2009 16:47	Flag as inappropriate
		Yes I can, 80,000 miles of cable, 45 mph, and yes I see Alcatraz. Can you find Waldo??????? Posted by Troyzkoi

		February 17, 2009 21:35	Flag as inappropriate
		This Gigapixel picture is amazing! Everyone should see this picture from Gigapan. Thanks Randy. I appreciate it. I would like to add the history of Golden gate brige to see. The Golden Gate Bridge construction began on January 5, 1933. The project cost more than $35 million. Strauss was chief engineer in charge of overall design and construction of the bridge project. Strauss remained head of the project, overseeing day-to-day construction and making some groundbreaking contributions. The bridge has approximately 1,200,000 total rivets. The weight of the roadway is hung off of two cables that pass through the two main towers and are fixed in concrete at each end. Each cable is made of 27,572 strands of wire. There are 80,000 miles (129,000 km) of wire in each of the two main cables;[22] the total is sufficient to go around the world roughly 6 times. The project was finished by April 1937, $1.3 million under budget. The bridge-opening celebration began on 27 May 1937 and lasted for one week. The day before vehicle traffic was allowed, 200,000 people crossed by foot and roller skate.[4] On opening day, Mayor Angelo Rossi and other officials rode the ferry to Marin, then crossed the bridge in a motorcade past three ceremonial "barriers," the last a blockade of beauty queens who required Joseph Strauss to present the bridge to the Highway District before allowing him to pass. An official song, "There's a Silver Moon on the Golden Gate," was chosen to commemorate the event. Strauss wrote a poem that is now on the Golden Gate Bridge entitled "The Mighty Task is Done." The next day, President Roosevelt pushed a button in Washington, DC signaling the official start of vehicle traffic over the Bridge at noon. When the celebration got out of hand, the SFPD had a small riot in the uptown Polk Gulch area. Weeks of civil and cultural activities called "the Fiesta" followed. A statue of Strauss was moved in 1955 to a site near the bridge. http://athma-pure.blogspot.com/ Posted by Ramen

		February 20, 2009 09:23	Flag as inappropriate
		nice Posted by nightbr

		June 19, 2009 17:44	Flag as inappropriate
		Nice Posted by holstius