On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > Suppose I have a photograph of some mountain peaks, and I know where the > photograph was taken from, and I want to identify the peaks. Given SRTM > data and scanned topo maps of the region, how difficult would it be to > project what the skyline would look like from where the photographer > was, to aid in identification? > > Any ideas about how to do this (preferably with free software) or > pointers to things to look at would be greatly appreciated.
Take a look here: http://tev.fbk.eu/marmota/gallery/marmota.pl Marmota Gallery -> various countries For example http://tev.fbk.eu/marmota/gallery/marmota.pl?photo=Italy/Trentino/28022008(011)_o.jpg (taken with our cell phone and geocoded in Marmota) The authors are most like willing to also geocode your examples. Markus > -- ams > > P.S. For a little inspiration, here are a couple of photographs of peaks > in the Himalayas. :-) > > http://toroid.org/misc/peaks-1.jpeg > http://toroid.org/misc/peaks-2.jpeg > > (I know most of the peaks in the second picture, but I'm interested in > the general problem more than identifying these specific peaks.) > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > -- Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/ http://www.grassbook.org/ _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
