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

[Andrew Turner]

underneath it's using gdalwarp and this is just the web-based UI to set GCP's

http://www.gdal.org/gdalwarp.html


On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Torsten Rahn <rahn at kde.org> wrote:
> 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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