Hello,
I currently experiment with creating a nice overview map of a fairly
complex part of the Hirlatz cave. The dataset spans about 8km in passage
lengths in variuous levels with lots of over-/underlaying passages.
The data is organised in surveys, where each survey defines at least a
"Hauptmap" wich usually includes all the submaps the main map is
composed of. The main intend of the "Hauptmap" is to nicely render the
survey alone.
Now I want to create an overview map and using the select statement I
can easily instruct therion to suck in and render all the maps of the
entire region. Offsets are stripped this way, but therion does a very
nice job in sorting te maps according to the altitude, which eases my
brain very much, since i don't need to wrap my head around sorting 54
maps by hand. Therion does a splendid job with this already.
However this produces one problem for me: I cannot render map offsets
easily anymore.
So what I had to do is to select the entire region using "select
Wandaugenlabyrinth.Hirlatzhoehle" and render that.
This will print the processes maps into the therion.log file.
From there I have picket it up to create a new "map" structure (`grep ^M
therion.og |sort -r | awk '{print $3}'`).
This i added to the thconfig file and selected that instead. There it is
now easy to define offets again.
BUT: This introduces another, long term problem:
When sometimes in the future someone adds a new survey to this region,
he needs to remember to merge its maps also into the overview map
definition (at the correct position because of altitude!).
Thus, it would be cool if we had some kind of "offset" thconfig command
alongside the select one.
This would allow me to read in the entire regions maps, and just specify
offsets for the offset ones; something like this:
----- thconfig -----
source ../../therion/Hirlatzhoehle.th
select Wandaugenlabyrinth.Hirlatzhoehle # read in all defined maps of
the Region
offset [email protected] [20 15 m]
below
offset [email protected] [-30 -20
m] above
--------------------
Expected result would be all the maps read and printed at their altitude
level, but the two maps offset as already known from the "map" command.
If someone adds, lets say,
[email protected] and recompiles the
file, the new survey would be included *without specifying it
explicitely*.
Is such a command possible?
I know it's not such a big deal with smaller caves, but in my dataset
this would save a tremendous ammount of time down the road when I will
make the atlas of Hirlatz regions (not to mention a big overview map).
ps. and probably relatet: When I give "select
Wandaugenlabyrinth.Hirlatzhoehle" and then "unselect
[email protected]", 177 survey is still
printed to the map. I would had expected that the scraps of the map
would be hidden from output.
Kind regards,
Beni
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