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Ban drone photos in topos

Because we climbers look the cliffs mostly from bottom to find the routes, the topos should have photos taken from bottom too. Birdview drone photos sucks big time. Different perspective, often overly wide/too large to be able to distinguish the features.

IMO Premium topo’s Quality factor should be often very low to none if there is drone photos.

Examples of hard to read topo images.

https://27crags.com/crags/toirano/premiumtopos/cartoon

https://27crags.com/crags/toirano/premiumtopos/c

https://27crags.com/crags/rocca-di-perti/premiumtopos/falesia-dei-tre-porcellini

ascata

https://27crags.com/crags/monte-cucco/premiumtopos/settore-centrale-85382

To make it even worse, topos may have many similar/same photos but routes next to each other drawn not in same photos. This make topo reading close to impossible. Like

https://27crags.com/crags/monte-cucco/premiumtopos/settore-centrale-85382 routes banana spit, adele, … Try reading that on phone screen, one picture at time.

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