Third Avenue Kiteboarding/Sailboarding Camera Site
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Welcome to 3rd Avenue, a kiteboarding/sailboarding site on the San Francisco bay. You should be able
to tell from the various "signs" whether or not to get yourself over to 3rd, one of the best
kiteboarding sites anywhere.
Visit the home of our new permanent webcam host, EFI, by selecting the image at the top of this page.
EFI is a market leader in printing technology. The company provides products, services and support
to handle all businesses’ printing needs. Headquartered in Foster City, CA, with 23 worldwide offices,
EFI’s award-winning, innovative technologies increase the productivity and profitability of commercial
and enterprise printing.
Zoom Network Camera Thumbnails - Please Do Not Fly Kites From Or Over The Bike Path
Hours of Operation: The network camera image is currently being updated (8 images) every 3 minutes
from 9 am until 8 pm. Below are the most recent images collected. Select an image to see an enlarged
version. To get current images please use reload on your browser. Otherwise timestamp may be out of
date with images!
The images below were last gathered at:
The Axis 2120 is permanently aimed at the Channel Marker.
Location
3rd Ave is located just east of Highway 101 and just north of the San Mateo Bridge (highway 92). We now
have a Virtual Earth map to show you exactly what it looks
like from a jet airliner point of view.
Camera and Positions
Above are eight images showing the conditions across the street from EFI. The
images are taken by our
Sony SNC-RZ30N, a camera paid for by the local community of sailboarders and kiteboarders, and maintained
now by Terra Wahl at EFI. Currently the camera is taking 8 pictures in sequence and uploading them all
at once.
Below is a panoramic image that is created by taking 33 independent/different images and stitching them
using ImageMagick. It isn't the prettiest stitch because we aren't overlapping the images, which would
require more images and slower refresh time, not to mention more effort. The reason our update
times have dropped to once every 3 minutes is to gather these panoramic images.
Panoramic View
Links
3rd Ave Weather Instrument
EFI has graciously agreed to support a weather instrument on their roof and we are working through the
details of hardware and software. The permanent link is below. This is a Flash site and the readings are
updated every 15 seconds. This site will not be authenticated because we have received enough contributions.
Not enough to pay for the equipment entirely, but enough to offset the hassle of authentication.
Weather instrument display
Another public site is also available through WeatherUnderground at the following URL. This site will update information
every 5-10 minutes. The GUI is not kiter/sailor oriented but the information is valid.
Weather instrument display
Cell Phone Webcam Site Versions
The content of the webcam site has been reduced to make viewing on a cell phone easier, but since this
site is highly graphical, unless you have a pretty large screen it won't help much except to give you
a reasonable idea of how crowded the parking lot is. Perhaps with iPhone the images will zoom better.
Who knows...
- A WAP/WML version of this website has been created and it is available at the following URL. It has
been tested on Treo 600 and Treo 650 but I do not know how well it will work with other phones and
PDAs. Please use and report to me directly. Thanks.
WML WirelessWebcamURL
- An HTML/non-WML wireless version of this website is available at the following URL. It has
been tested on PPC 6700 and iPhone. It has also undergone some improvement since it was first
released. Please use and
report to me directly. Thanks.
HTML WirelessWebcamURL
Send questions, comments, and suggestions for this webpage or about webcam operation to:
Jack Hodges @ comcast
