On 23 Mrz., 11:49, David Haberthür <david.haberth...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Kay
> Sorry, I have not read this far in the thread before my reply. Sounds > like a great and interesting summer :) We'll see if a student > nonetheless wants to pick up your pieces (or more like grab the thing > afloat :) Grab the thing afloat is hopefully more like it. When I'm online, I'll gladly help, but I won't be available continuously, so I feel I wouldn't make a good mentor. > Just out of personal curiosity, what GIS are you working on/for (I've > got a friend in the GIS-"scene"). I'm using Quantum GIS (QGIS) - and GRASS. I'm only using it for my personal pleasure so far. I haven't done so much along these lines yet, and it's a huge topic to get one's head round. It all started out when I had collected a good amount of maps for my favourite trekking area (the Val Grande National Park in Piemonte, Italy) - historic, recent and satellite imagery, and wondered how I could compare them. So I needed a tool to get them to a common projection and georeference them. Next I got a GPS and started putting my own tracks in, then I got into DEMs and making my own maps. I want to work on the GPS data and play with them with a bit of statistics to reconstruct some of the derelict trail system in the area. This is difficult, because the area is very rugged and often the GPS signal is feeble. Ulimately I want to upload the data to OSM. The funny thing is that it's not that different from panography - you deal with a spherical surface and it's projections into the plane. Only that those geographers have it down to a tee - to them, of course. it's not a spherical surface but something much more complex (looks like an exotic fruit if you exaggerate the elevations). It even made me think if we couldn't use some of the GIS code (they're using Python a lot as glue code, shouldn't be too hard) - they've also got very nice and precise transformations, interpolations and projections, and good tools to visualize huge muti-layered tiled images with vector data thrown on top... - all FOSS. Makes me envious at times when for panoramas all I can do is run FSPViewer under wine in a window 1/2 the size of my screen because openGLView won't even run on my machine... Kay -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
