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The content ofZone of Visual Influence wasmerged intoViewshed on 24 August 2016. The former page'shistory now serves toprovide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that location, see itstalk page.

A viewshed is the area of land (to the horizon) that can be seen from a high point.—Precedingunsigned comment added by68.180.38.25 (talk)07:21, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I intend to add a redirect from "view shed" (two words) to the existing page.

Multiple sources express "viewshed" as two words, "view shed." See examples below.

(I acknowledge that "viewshed" is the preferred spelling these days, but we should provide easy linkage for the alternate spelling.)

Update: I made the redirect, and added a link fromAnderson Canyon toview shed.KKelvinThompson (talk)01:02, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Commercial products and public documents:

• View Shed Tool, a feature inGlobal Mapper software fromBlue Marble Geographics. Note multiple uses of "view shed" in this commercial application.
• Microwave LOS & View Shed Analysis, a feature from analytics company Digital Twin Sim.
• US24 Design Guidelines Appendix 37, a 2009 pdf document from theColorado Department of Transportation. The entire document uses two word "view shed."
• View Shed library 1.0, a software library from U.S. government agencyOSTI, released in 2014. "The View Shed library is a collection of Umbra modules that are used to calculate areas of visual coverage (view sheds)."

Additionally, two-word "view shed" is in five existing Wikipedia articles:

• Anderson Canyon
• Big Sur land use
• Carter's Grove
• El Paraíso, Peru
• Fire lookout tower

KKelvinThompson (talk)21:12, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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