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1. Avenue kiteboarding and sailboarding network ptz camera mounted inside of the Electronics for Imaging soon to be Gilead Sciences building in Foster City CA If you wish to return to the application please select the following link ThirdAve View only from an iOS device that has it installed of course It is important that you know that ThirdAveView is a monitoring application for a specific location We provide you with up to date views of the 3 Ave kiteboarding and sailboarding site and its environs You use this information in whatever way you want though most people use it to guide their decision about the conditions at this popular site ThirdAve View and its cousins ThirdAveWind and ThirdAveSuite were developed for kiters and sailboarders needing up to the minute observational data Why is this so Well 3 Ave gets its great winds largely through north south convection caused by the temperature differences between San Francisco and San Jose On any given day it takes time for this convective flow to get started and to shut down In the fall as the number of hours of daylight diminish the time it takes for a convective flow to begin gets closer and closer to dusk so someone wanting to go out needs to be on site and prepped sometimes before the conditions are good enough to go out ThirdAveView provides the kind of information that helps its users get out when other apps which don t provide data as frequently cannot Being2. a monitoring application ThirdAveView might not provide images If the webcam or its server are down or if there is an interruption in network connectivity ThirdAve View will be useless and you will need to use an alternate source until the situation is resolved 1 1 General Information and Setup The application supports five 5 different photographic views of the Third Avenue kiteboarding and sailboarding site acquired from our Sony PTZ network camera Gao e Parking Lot shows a view of the main parking lot e Carpeted Area and Flag shows the main setup area and the flag by the sailboard ramp e Jump shows the main kiteboarding jumping area at the corner of the path to the right of the sailboarding ramp e Beach shows the lower south beach setup area e Panoramic shows a panoramic view created by stitching together 33 images together 3 rows of 11 images The following sections describe each of these view types in detail The screen shots shown in this document are the 1Phone versions The 1Pad versions are functionally 1 1 1 View Layout Each camera view has 4 areas e Title area e View area e Button area e Tab area 1 1 1 1 Title area The title area provides a title for the particular view as well as a timestamp for when this view was last collected Both the title and timestamp will change from black lettering to white lettering at night 1 1 1 1 1 ThirdAveWind Information If ThirdAveVi
3. update time Wind speed direction ees m l gt Tides showing flooding at 3 7 showing NW at 4 mph also a also a button to return to button to return to ThirdAveWind ThirdAveWind View scrollable zoomable Take snapshot and save to photo album Switch to app Toggle audio on off information view audio clip changes with wind speed PL Flag Jump Beach Selected Panoramic view view view view view The last view shows the right side of the panoramic view Title Panoramic View Last update Sep 7 2013 10 38 39 AM Last update time Wind speed direction Tides showing flooding at 3 7 showing NW at 4 mph also a also a button to return to button to return to ThirdAveWind ThirdAveWind View scrollable zoomable Take snapshot and save to photo album Switch to app information view Toggle audio on off audio clip changes with wind speed PL Flag Jump Beach Selected Panoramic view view view view view When you select to save a snapshot of the panoramic view you will indeed be saving the entire view and not the section that is in view on the phone at the moment It will look as follows 1 2 6 General Operation Each of the views is designed to fit vertically in as much of the space as is available This means that you are only viewing a band of the image and can scroll or pan to the left or right by swiping your finger across the image You can use pinch and stretch motion
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5. cription ThirdAveView image cam viewer was designed and developed in Moss Beach by Arbor Studios The application provides an iPhone alternative to the webcam page available for the Third Avenue network camera You can find additional information about ThirdAveView and our other projects by touching our website address below ThirdAveView Web Page __ Button Copyright 2009 Arbor Studios All rights reserved Two items of note exist about the Information view First to return to the main view area just select the Done button on the right side of the Title area Second there is a button close to the bottom of the view labeled http arbor studios com that when selected will take you to the ThirdAveView website When you are on that website if you navigate to the Tutorial page there will be a link that when selected will return you to ThirdAveView 1 1 1 4 Tab area The application is tabbed meaning that you can select any of the views by selecting the tab at the bottom of any view Its as simple as that 1 2 Application Views When ThirdAve View is launched the first view that will be shown is the ThirdAve View splash page Title and Version ThirdAveView site viewer was designed and developed in Moss Beach by Arbor Studios The application provides an iPhone alternative to the webpage available forthe Third Avenue ThirdAveView network pan tilt zoom camera Description Ph
6. ew was launched from ThirdAveWind then some weather information is transferred to it and is displayed in two button images on the left and right sides of the title area One represents wind speed and direction while the other represents tide information The left image represents a compass rosette with a number inside The rosette will have a dial hand pointing in the current wind direction and the number will be the current wind speed The right image looks like wave shape and is used to depict tidal information The image is divided into a blue left side and a green right side The blue left side represents a flooding tide while the green right side represents an ebbing tide You can tell which is in effect because there will be an overlay on whichever side is active in a darker color darker blue on the left darker green on the right In the center of the image will be a number representing the current tide value 1 1 1 2 View area The primary function of ThirdAve View is to provide imagery of the Third Ave site The view area of any particular view shows a portion of the view associated with the location You can scroll the entire area using finger drag operations You can also use double finger pinch operations to zoom out or in You can of course scroll a zoomed area 1 1 1 3 Button area There are 3 buttons at the bottom of each view located just above the tab area They are Information Takes you to the ThirdAveVie
7. ily If there is any other type of problem with the application please send mail to help arbor studios com and please mention ThirdAveView in the subject line We will try to understand and resolve your problem
8. oto courtesy Scott Ellington Copyright 2009 Arbor Studios All rights reserved Once the images are downloaded the first view that is shown will be the Parking Lot view 1 2 1 Parking Lot View The Parking Lot view is arguably the most informative view for deciding whether and when to go to Third Avenue It tells you how many people are in the lot who is in the lot and what kind of activity is going on For this reason it is the default image when the application is loaded Title Last update time View scrollable zoomable Take snapshot and save to photo album Switch to app Toggle audio on off information view audio clip changes with wind speed Selected PL Flag Jump Beach Panoramic view view view view view 1 2 2 Wind Flag and Ramp View The camera view for looks as follows Title Wind speed direction showing NW at 4 mph also a button to return to ThirdAveWind View scrollable zoomable Switch to app information view Pa ol PL Selected Flag view view 1 2 33 Jump Area View The camera view for looks as follows Last update time Tides showing flooding at 3 7 also a button to return to ThirdAveWind Take snapshot and save to photo album Toggle audio on off audio clip changes with wind speed baie Panoramic view Title Last update time Wind speed direction showing NW at 4 mph also a button to return to ThirdAveWind Tides showing flooding a
9. s to zoom out or in Clearly the most dramatic of all the views is the panoramic view Unfortunately it is a very large image almost 1 MB so it takes a long time to load When it does it will be worth the wait because it has been stitched together from 33 separate images and allows you to scroll from almost the north end on the left all the way to Inktomi on the right It may not load on older 3G and before iPhones In fact it may crash the application If the panoramic view opens in zoomed mode it will probably do so for the entire day and will not respond to zoom out touch events This is not a problem with the application but with the software controlling the camera 2 Troubleshooting The app doesn t launch If you have wifi turned on and there is no wireless in your current area the app may open so slowly that it times out Try turning off wifi Contact us at help arbor studios com Weather information is not shown You didn t launch ThirdAve View from ThirdAveWind The weather buttons shown in this tutorial only appear when ThirdAveView is launched from ThirdAve Wind Webcam images are unavailable There may be a network connectivity issue Check your network access The webcam may be offline Webcam views appear in grayscale Occasionally the camera gets confused and the images will be in grayscale for the whole day It is annoying but it always fixes itself by the next reboot reboots occur around midnight da
10. t 3 7 also a button to return to ThirdAveWind View scrollable zoomable Take snapshot and save to photo album Switch to app Toggle audio on off information view audio clip changes with wind speed PL Flag Selected Jump Beach Panoramic view view view view view 1 2 4 Lower Beach View The camera view for looks as follows Title Last update time Wind speed direction showing NW at 4 mph also a button to return to ThirdAveWind Tides showing flooding at 3 7 also a button to return to ThirdAveWind View scrollable Zoomable Take snapshot and save to photo album Switch to app Toggle audio on off information view audio clip changes with wind speed PL Flag Jump Selected Beach Panoramic view view view view view 1 2 5 Panoramic View The camera view for looks as follows It is a large image that takes a while to load but is worth the wait Here are shown 3 images scrolling left to right Title Last update time Wind speed direction showing NW at 4 mph also a button to return to ThirdAveWind Tides showing flooding at 3 7 also a button to return to ThirdAveWind View scrollable zoomable Take snapshot and save to photo album Switch to app Toggle audio on off information view audio clip changes with wind speed PL Flag Jump Beach Selected Panoramic view view view view view The next view shows the center of the panoramic view Title Last
11. w Information view e Snapshot Takes a snapshot of the current view e Audio Toggles audio on off 1 1 1 3 1 Audio Button At the bottom right of each top level tab view is an icon button that controls the background audio This is a toggle button so it is used to turn audio on and to turn it off again The background audio changes with wind speed using the following logic e 0 11 mph Gentle lapping of water against rocks e 12 16 mph Pumping sounds e 17 26 mph Discussion and deflation sounds e 27 mph Wind oversaturating the microphone When you select the audio button the sound may take a few seconds to begin Also when you toggle it off it may take a few seconds to stop 1 1 1 3 2 Snapshot Button Version 2 3 introduced a new icon button to the center of each image view that when selected will take a picture of the current view and save it to your photo album When the button is selected you may see an alert that looks like the one below ThirdAveView Would Like to Access Your Photos Don t Allow OK If you don t really want to save the image then simply select the Don t Allow button in the alert Otherwise select the OK button 1 1 1 3 3 Information Button At the bottom left of each top level tab view is an icon button that will redirect the user to the Information view as shown below Title Area gt ThirdAveView Return Button ThirdhveView 2 3 ThirdAveView Des
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