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I wish I could find a satellite map of the road cut into the mountain, I'm having a hard time appreciating how this path was able to cut 67 km out of the journe

I wish I could find a satellite map of the road cut into the mountain, I'm having a hard time appreciating how this path was able to cut 67 km out of the journey.

dchest 14y ago
It's linked from the Wikipedia article. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=24.877093,85.242956&t=h&z=11 https://maps.google.com/maps?q=24.877093,85.242956&t=h&#...
- mkl 14y ago
  So it is. Doh, I just spent 15 minutes tracking it down (and I didn't quite get it right - there's another cutting through the same ridge a bit south west which I guess is newer). Here [1] is a 3D diagram in a video (not English) about it, with the nearest town labelled Vazirganj. It's Wazirganj on Google maps, south of the cutting, so Gahlour must be the small village to the north west. [1] http://youtu.be/3E84EIKlY4g?t=3m8s http://youtu.be/3E84EIKlY4g?t=3m8s
  - jlmendezbonini 14y ago
    I had some time to kill so I downloaded Google Earth but still wasn't able to find the village "Gahlour". However, I was able to verify that the distance from the mentioned coordinate and "Wazirganj" is indeed ~8Km as stated by Wikipedia. Google Earth screenshot for those obsessed by this story too: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2336184/24.877093%2C85.242956.jpg https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2336184/24.877093%2C85.242956.jpg
- sesqu 14y ago
  Another link in the article pointed to Topomapper which had the best map, in my opinion - an old Yahoo! map. (If you also want to find Atri, it's on the OSM and Bing maps). http://www.topomapper.com/index.html?lat=24.87709&lon=85.24296&zoom=13&layers=00000000B00F http://www.topomapper.com/index.html?lat=24.87709&lon=85...
- jacobn 14y ago
  Terrain mode shows it more clearly: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=24.877093,85.242956&ll=24.877171,85.24395&spn=0.019389,0.038581&t=p&z=15 https://maps.google.com/maps?q=24.877093,85.242956&ll=24... (you'll want to view all of the maps linked to in this sub-thread)
- martin-adams 14y ago
  Okay, I give up. I can't figure out where the original 75km came from looking at the google map.
  - dchest 14y ago
    Here you can see a long road around the mountain http://www.topomapper.com/index.html?lat=24.87709&lon=85.24296&zoom=13&layers=00000000B00F http://www.topomapper.com/index.html?lat=24.87709&lon=85... (thanks, sesqu)
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I wish I could find a satellite map of the road cut into the mountain, I'm having a hard time appreciating how this path was able to cut 67 km out of the journey.

dchest 14y ago

It's linked from the Wikipedia article. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=24.877093,85.242956&t=h&z=11 https://maps.google.com/maps?q=24.877093,85.242956&t=h&#...

mkl 14y ago
So it is. Doh, I just spent 15 minutes tracking it down (and I didn't quite get it right - there's another cutting through the same ridge a bit south west which I guess is newer). Here [1] is a 3D diagram in a video (not English) about it, with the nearest town labelled Vazirganj. It's Wazirganj on Google maps, south of the cutting, so Gahlour must be the small village to the north west. [1] http://youtu.be/3E84EIKlY4g?t=3m8s http://youtu.be/3E84EIKlY4g?t=3m8s
- jlmendezbonini 14y ago
  I had some time to kill so I downloaded Google Earth but still wasn't able to find the village "Gahlour". However, I was able to verify that the distance from the mentioned coordinate and "Wazirganj" is indeed ~8Km as stated by Wikipedia. Google Earth screenshot for those obsessed by this story too: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2336184/24.877093%2C85.242956.jpg https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2336184/24.877093%2C85.242956.jpg
sesqu 14y ago
Another link in the article pointed to Topomapper which had the best map, in my opinion - an old Yahoo! map. (If you also want to find Atri, it's on the OSM and Bing maps). http://www.topomapper.com/index.html?lat=24.87709&lon=85.24296&zoom=13&layers=00000000B00F http://www.topomapper.com/index.html?lat=24.87709&lon=85...
jacobn 14y ago
Terrain mode shows it more clearly: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=24.877093,85.242956&ll=24.877171,85.24395&spn=0.019389,0.038581&t=p&z=15 https://maps.google.com/maps?q=24.877093,85.242956&ll=24... (you'll want to view all of the maps linked to in this sub-thread)
martin-adams 14y ago
Okay, I give up. I can't figure out where the original 75km came from looking at the google map.
- dchest 14y ago
  Here you can see a long road around the mountain http://www.topomapper.com/index.html?lat=24.87709&lon=85.24296&zoom=13&layers=00000000B00F http://www.topomapper.com/index.html?lat=24.87709&lon=85... (thanks, sesqu)

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