Hi Glenn;
 
Thanks for the ideas.  I had quite a lengthy support discussion with a
gentleman from Terrex, and he informed me that they were using the proj4
library in the projection, that it was on the WGS84 ellipsoid, and more,
including that the projection is WGS84 flat earth, and sent me a
spreadsheet with a whole slew of information.  The projInfo.txt file
looks like this:
csm=Projected
originlat=25.000000000000000
originlon=42.000000000000000
zunits=1.000000000000000
selectorId=60000
dcType=NONE
dcSelectorId=0
txpOffsetX=0.000000
txpOffsetY=0.000000
txpOffsetZ=0.000000

And here is one of his replies, which didn't nail down the question of
"what is the projection".  I got a "looks like the projection is", not a
"the projection is":

Lenny,

The answer is Yes to your question: Just to touch base again, it looks
like the projection we are talking about (from
what I can gather looking at the projections) is an orthographic
projection at the origin that the user specifies. Is
that correct?

Sorry for the delay.

Jeff 

Again, thanks for your help,
Lenny

 

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Waldron
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 1:04 PM
To: OpenSceneGraph Users
Subject: Re: [osg-users] Looking for some Terrex Terrapage Archive help


Leonard,

It's highly unlikely that a Terrapage model would be in an orthographic
or stereographic projection. I'm pretty sure Terrex can only support
localized projections like UTM and state plane.

If you are trying to guess what CS the terrain is in, take a lat/long
you know is on the terrain and figure out which UTM zone it's in. That's
the first thing I would try. Also, if you have a projInfo.txt file, that
might lend a clue.


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



On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Smith, Leonard C
<[email protected]> wrote:


        Hello All;
         
        I have been attempting over the last few months to invert the
LVCS projection in a Terrex Terrapage archive (.txp) file to retrieve an
accurate latitude, longitude, and altitude given the X, Y, and Z
coordinates in the file.
         
        I have tried the proj4 library, with a stereographic projection,
and an orthographic projection, to no avail.  I have had some success
with smaller areas, for instance 2 degrees in latitude and 2 degrees in
longitude, but with larger areas, the pj_inv function fails to give me
accurate results.
         
        Does anyone have any information as to just what projection
parameters the LVCS projection is, such as "+proj=stere +R=", or the
like?
         
        For an example, if I have a latitude of 31 North and a longitude
of 49 East, I have tried the following two projections, and both fail to
give me accurate results:
         
        "+proj=ortho +lat_0=31N +lon_0=49E"
        "+proj=stere +lat_0=31N +lon_0=49E"
         
        Thanks for any help,
        Leonard Smith

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