You could ask these guys:

http://www.heywhatsthat.com/

(or just use their website)

2008/12/30 Abhijit Menon-Sen <[email protected]>:
> Hi.
>
> Suppose I have a photograph of some mountain peaks, and I know where the
> photograph was taken from, and I want to identify the peaks. Given SRTM
> data and scanned topo maps of the region, how difficult would it be to
> project what the skyline would look like from where the photographer
> was, to aid in identification?
>
> Any ideas about how to do this (preferably with free software) or
> pointers to things to look at would be greatly appreciated.
>
> -- ams
>
> P.S. For a little inspiration, here are a couple of photographs of peaks
> in the Himalayas. :-)
>
> http://toroid.org/misc/peaks-1.jpeg
> http://toroid.org/misc/peaks-2.jpeg
>
> (I know most of the peaks in the second picture, but I'm interested in
> the general problem more than identifying these specific peaks.)
>
>
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Barry

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