Fjell

Fjell answers one question: how long would it take to walk there? Point your phone at a ridge on the horizon and Fjell names what you are looking at and tells you how far it is. Press and hold anywhere on the map and it works out the walk, across real terrain, on real paths. HOW THE TIME IS WORKED OUT Not straight-line distance. Fjell builds a grid of the ground between you and the place you picked, weighing slope, woods, water, trails and roads, then times the route with Tobler's hiking function, the published model of how walking speed falls away with steepness. Your pace, your pack and whether you stop to sleep all change the answer. Long walks get days, nights and sunrises. Short ones get an arrival time. LOOK Hold up the camera and the landscape gets labelled. Peaks, towns, lakes, with distance and height. Tap any hillside, named or not, and Fjell works out exactly which patch of…