[Marble-devel] Fwd: Morphed 1689 Eastern World Map

[Torsten Rahn]

Maurizio: Seems that Magnus had already picked up the 1689 Eastern World Map 
(I had already asked Magnus previously whether he would be interested in doing 
that job. But as he hadn't given any update recently I thought he had given up 
-- looks like I was wrong :-)   ). 

So if you are interested in the Historical Map thingie maybe you can join 
forces with Magnus (and pick one of the remaining maps or find a new one)? 

The good news is also that Magnus has looked 
deeper into the issue and apparently has come up with a Free Software 
solution! See his e-mail below for more information.

Regards,

Torsten

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Subject: Morphed 1689 Eastern World Map
Date: Sunday 26 October 2008
From: magnus 
To: tackat at kde.org

Hi, Thorsten

This was no easy task you had me do.
I tried to morphman software you suggested, but when it didn't work on 
wine when I tried it, I didn't bother trying to get it to work - it's 
proprietary, I'd rather not use it.

I stuck with xmorph, but it had too few vertical/horizontal lines to be 
usable. I found the value in the source code to change to up the minimum 
number of lines (default was 4, I changed it to 55), but it wouldn't 
compile - wanted some dependencies that I already had -  and since it's 
an old unmaintained piece of software the website and mailinglist (6 
postings in 4 years) was no help, I contacted the debian developer to 
get some pointers to getting it compiled, and his advice worked.

So today I have been moving little yellow dots, I just finished spending 
~3 hours getting the eastern part of the world morphed(it's a thing to 
keep you busy with when listening to podcasts).

Here's the result, I think it should be somewhat usable:
[URL deleted as it was pointing to a private website and the download is a bit 
big ....]

I'll probably do the western part later today.

Magnus

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