Shayne,

I just ran your test and reproduced the problem. BUT: when I changed
--PagedLOD to --LOD, it came out correctly. Hope that helps you track it
down..


Glenn Waldron : Pelican Mapping : http://pelicanmapping.com :
+1.703.652.4791


On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Tueller, Shayne R Civ USAF AFMC 519
SMXS/MXDEC <shayne.tuel...@hill.af.mil> wrote:

> All,
>
> I finally have two small Geotiff tiles (1m resolution) that I've
> experimented with to examine this problem. I run them through VPB and they
> first get reprojected (via GDAL I presume) into temporary files. I then
> load
> the two temporary reprojected files into OpenEV for examination and they
> still appear to line up as they did before being reprojected. That would
> seem to suggest that the problem isn't with the reprojection step (or what
> GDAL is doing).
>
> Once VPB installs them into the database, they do NOT line up as I have
> shown in my previous email with the screen capture. This would suggest that
> VPB is doing something that is shifting them off so they don't align.
>
> I've attached the two GeoTiff tiles if anyone wants to reproduce this
> problem.
>
> Using VPB, I'm issuing the command:
>
> osgdem --TERRAIN --PagedLOD --geocentric -t hillsmall -l 8 -o hillsmall.ive
>
> The "hillsmall" directory contains the two tiles. Interestingly, when I
> remove the "--geocentric" flag from the above command, things look fine for
> a flat database and the tiles align (which isn't surprising). It's almost
> as
> if the spheroid between the tiles and what VPB is using are not matched.
>
> Any ideas on what's going on?
>
> -Shayne
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: osg-users-boun...@lists.openscenegraph.org
> [mailto:osg-users-boun...@lists.openscenegraph.org] On Behalf Of J.P.
> Delport
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:39 PM
> To: OpenSceneGraph Users
> Subject: Re: [osg-users] discontinuity in texture in VPB...
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd also suggest what Christophe said. Do the projection of some tiles
> manually before VPB is run. I normally use something like:
>
> gdalwarp -t_srs "+proj=latlong +datum=WGS84" -r bilinear $name
> ../reprojected/$newname
>
> Then load the tiles into something like QGIS (http://www.qgis.org/) to
> see if they line up.
>
> jp
>
> christophe loustaunau wrote:
> > Hi Shayne,
> >
> > Maybe you could reproject your imagery to a geographic projection with
> > gdal (gdal_translate) and see if you have the same artifact.
> > You will know if it's a VPB or a gdal reprojection problem.
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Tueller, Shayne R Civ USAF AFMC 519
> > SMXS/MXDEC <shayne.tuel...@hill.af.mil
> > <mailto:shayne.tuel...@hill.af.mil>> wrote:
> >
> >     I've built a geocentric database using VBP 0.9.7. <http://0.9.7.>
> >     The imagery is GeoTiff tiles that are NAIP 1 meter UTM and the
> >     elevation is DTED level 1. The GeoTiffs appear to be reprojected by
> >     VPB (I assume using GDAL internally) for the geocentric database
> >     setting. Things appear to build just fine without error but when I
> >     view the database in OSG, I see a nasty discontinuity across texture
> >     tile boundaries. You can clearly see this in the airfield picture
> >     that is attached. The landing strip does not line up across the tile
> >     boundary. I've verified that the tiles themselves are correct across
> >     boundaries before I fed them into VPB. The discontinuity appears
> >     regardless of the LOD that is being paged in.
> >
> >
> >
> >     My question is, is this an artifact that I must live with since the
> >     original imagery is based in UTM and the reprojection that VPB does
> >     (or GDAL) introduces inaccuracies when going to a geocentric
> >     database? Is there something else I can do to eliminate these
> >     discontinuities?
> >
> >
> >
> >     Any input or ideas anyone can suggest to eliminate these
> >     discontinuities in the database would be welcome.
> >
> >
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >
> >     -Shayne
> >
> >
> >     _______________________________________________
> >     osg-users mailing list
> >     osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org
> >     <mailto:osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org>
> >
> http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Christophe Loustaunau.
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > osg-users mailing list
> > osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org
> >
> http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
>
> --
> This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions,
> e-mail
> legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard.
> The full disclaimer details can be found at
> http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html.
>
> This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by
> MailScanner,
> and is believed to be clean.  MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for
> their support.
>
> _______________________________________________
> osg-users mailing list
> osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org
> http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
>
> _______________________________________________
> osg-users mailing list
> osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org
> http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
>
>
_______________________________________________
osg-users mailing list
osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org
http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org

Reply via email to