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

[Andrew Turner]

I assume you're talking about map/image warping?

You should check out Map Warper - an open source geo-rectification
tool. It accepts any images, ground-control points, and then gives you
back a geotiff, wms, tiles, etc.

http://wrp.geothings.net/

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Torsten Rahn <rahn at kde.org> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>
> 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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