Hamish,
Thanks for your response! I have answered your questions below in red:
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Hamish hamis...@yahoo.com wrote:
Buslers wrote:
I have been having trouble trying to use i.ortho.photo. It has
been a few years since I have last used GRASS GIS. I knew that the
i.ortho.photo module was not available for winGRASS, so I attempted
to install on Ubuntu. After several hours of failed attempts to run
the module, I found a website saying that i.ortho.photo was not
working in 6.4.3, but you could use it on windows running Cygwin.
Which website is that?
The website that I found saying that i.ortho.photo was not working on 6.4.3
was at http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-grass under Errata.
i.ortho.photo should be working fine on 6.4.3
in Ubuntu. It's only if you really want to run i.ortho.photo on Windows
that you need worry about Cygwin. (Cygwin provides UNIX's X11 X-Windows,
i.ortho.photo needs an X-monitor) Generally it's probably easier to
run Ubuntu directly or in a virtual machine (VirtualBox is pretty
popular) than bother with setting Cygwin. Many roads to Rome though.
What was the error you were having trying to get 6.4.3's i.ortho.photo
to run on Ubuntu?
I was not getting an error in particular, but I was not able to select any
of the options to proceed with the orthorectification process. I was able
to choose the imagery group, but that was as far as I could go. It very
well could be a user error (meaning I did not know what to do next). I
attempted to type 2 to go to Select/Modify imagery group target. The
menu did not respond to anything.
I attempted to install Cygwin and winGRASS using the instructions from
here - http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/binary/mswindows/cygwin/, but
I kept getting an error saying unable to get setup.ini from
I think that file is the cygwin download mirror's manifest, you might
try another mirror?
I did add the -X to the target in the properties menu. I then tried
to install GRASS 7.0, but Ubuntu's repositories did not include
7.0. I added the ubuntugis testing repository and I still get a
message saying that grass70 could not be located.
GRASS 7 doesn't include i.ortho.photo, since Xmonitors were removed
there. I'm not sure if anyone is working on a wxGUI replacement for
it or not.
UbuntuGIS only supplies official GRASS releases, so 6.4.3 is the latest.
There is another grass team ppa which has grass7 development snapshot
packages for ubuntu, the latest build is from December last time I looked.
Hamish
From your suggestion above, I would ideally like to run i.ortho.photo
directly on Ubuntu. It appears that 6.4.3 would be my only option if I can
get it to work. I read somewhere that i.ortho.photo should work from the
command line, but I would rather go through the GUI if at all possible. It
would be great if i.ortho.photo could be included with GRASS 7.0. Is
i.ortho.rectify going to replace i.ortho.photo?
Thanks for the help!
Shaun
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Hamish hamis...@yahoo.com wrote:
Buslers wrote:
I have been having trouble trying to use i.ortho.photo. It has
been a few years since I have last used GRASS GIS. I knew that the
i.ortho.photo module was not available for winGRASS, so I attempted
to install on Ubuntu. After several hours of failed attempts to run
the module, I found a website saying that i.ortho.photo was not
working in 6.4.3, but you could use it on windows running Cygwin.
Which website is that? i.ortho.photo should be working fine on 6.4.3
in Ubuntu. It's only if you really want to run i.ortho.photo on Windows
that you need worry about Cygwin. (Cygwin provides UNIX's X11 X-Windows,
i.ortho.photo needs an X-monitor) Generally it's probably easier to
run Ubuntu directly or in a virtual machine (VirtualBox is pretty
popular) than bother with setting Cygwin. Many roads to Rome though.
What was the error you were having trying to get 6.4.3's i.ortho.photo
to run on Ubuntu?
I attempted to install Cygwin and winGRASS using the instructions from
here - http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/binary/mswindows/cygwin/, but
I kept getting an error saying unable to get setup.ini from
I think that file is the cygwin download mirror's manifest, you might
try another mirror?
I did add the -X to the target in the properties menu. I then tried
to install GRASS 7.0, but Ubuntu's repositories did not include
7.0. I added the ubuntugis testing repository and I still get a
message saying that grass70 could not be located.
GRASS 7 doesn't include i.ortho.photo, since Xmonitors were removed
there. I'm not sure if anyone is working on a wxGUI replacement for
it or not.
UbuntuGIS only supplies official GRASS releases, so 6.4.3 is the latest.
There is another grass team ppa which has grass7 development snapshot
packages for ubuntu, the latest build is from December last time I looked.
Hamish
