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

[Torsten Rahn]

Hi Andrew,

On Sunday 26 October 2008 15:11:49 Andrew Turner wrote:
> I assume you're talking about map/image warping?

Yes, however of a special kind ... ;-) Did you have a look at the example 
Url's I've posted?

> 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.

Looks kind of web-based to me. Unless there is a command line tool with a nice 
GUI hidden somewhere I fear that Map Warper isn't quite the thing we need for 
the kind of Historical maps we are dealing with here (Or did I miss 
something?). The maps we are using involves setting about a few hundred 
markers ... (Unless one would know the projection, and would be sure that the 
source map was accurate enough and have some tools and the right parameters 
... yada, yada, . ;-) ) .

But I'll give it a try for the detailed moon pictures of the Apollo / lunar 
probe landing sites that I want to add later on. Looks like a good choice for 
that task.

Thanks for your suggestion!

Torsten

> 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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