Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: Line of Sight Update

2008-07-23 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Benjamin Ducke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Markus Neteler wrote: >> >> It is important - please, if not too hard (I ported it from r.cva to >> r.los, wasn't >> so hard) add it. It makes a difference... I have an ongoing "batlle" with >> an ex colleague if we can s

Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: Line of Sight Update

2008-07-23 Thread Will
All of that is already in place and working. (Well, I don't know if curvature is working - all the data I have here is in the wrong projection to work with curvature, but i ported the code from r.los, so hopefully it should work as expected) Right now, I'm having some issues with it determining c

Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: Line of Sight Update

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Kelly
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Markus Neteler wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Will <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] It is done exactly the way you mentioned in the other email, finding the radius of the elipsoid and reducing the elevatin of the cell that you are looking at depending on the distan

Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: Line of Sight Update

2008-07-23 Thread Benjamin Ducke
Markus Neteler wrote: It is important - please, if not too hard (I ported it from r.cva to r.los, wasn't so hard) add it. It makes a difference... I have an ongoing "batlle" with an ex colleague if we can see the sea from our mountain here or not, r.los and his algorithm do not agree. :) Inter

Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: Line of Sight Update

2008-07-23 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi Will, On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Will <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Paul Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Will wrote: ... > I am having a great time doing this work; I am funded from an NSF grant > that Laura has. Hopefully I'll be

Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: Line of Sight Update

2008-07-23 Thread Benjamin Ducke
Sorry for the late reply to this -- too caught up in other things at the moment. Earth curvature correction and other generic issues involved in LOS application design are detailed nicely here: http://www.scs.org/PUBs/jdms/vol1num1/article04.pdf The article talks about using an approximation in

Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: Line of Sight Update

2008-07-09 Thread Helena Mitasova
On Jul 9, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Will wrote: Hi Paul (and the rest of the GRASS dev list), On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Paul Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Will, On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Will wrote: Hi Paul, That all sounds good. I'll move r.terraflow and r.viewshed (I decided to tak

[GRASS-dev] Re: Line of Sight Update

2008-07-09 Thread Michael Barton
text below. Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 17:11:26 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [GRASS-dev] Re: Line of Sight Update To: Will <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Laura Toma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type:

[GRASS-dev] Re: Line of Sight Update

2008-07-09 Thread Laura Toma
On Jul 9, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Paul Kelly wrote: Regarding the output: my suggestion was to output, for every cell that is visible, its height (or slope) *above* the line of sight; this will give an indication of how visible the point is. Similarly, for the cells that are *not* visible

[GRASS-dev] Re: Line of Sight Update

2008-07-09 Thread Will
Hi Paul (and the rest of the GRASS dev list), On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Paul Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Will, > > On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Will wrote: > > Hi Paul, >> >> That all sounds good. I'll move r.terraflow and r.viewshed (I decided to >> take up the r.viewshed name) into

[GRASS-dev] Re: Line of Sight Update

2008-07-09 Thread Paul Kelly
Hi Will/Laura (Cc grass-dev) Some comments in-line below. On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Will wrote: Hi again everyone, I agree, it will be easy, but I wanted to make sure it was wanted before I did it. I'll put it in now. I have the code written for curvature when it runs in memory, but I have not tes

[GRASS-dev] Re: Line of Sight Update

2008-07-09 Thread Paul Kelly
Hello Will, On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Will wrote: Hi Paul, That all sounds good. I'll move r.terraflow and r.viewshed (I decided to take up the r.viewshed name) into that iostream directory that you mentioned. Otherwise though, the code is working and ready to use. That's great! I'm sure I can s