[Xastir] Ridge Radar images

Tom Russo russo at bogodyn.org
Sat Dec 26 00:28:28 EST 2009


On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 10:30:36PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <rtg at aapsc.com> flavor, containing:
> On Fri, 25 Dec 2009, Tom Russo wrote:
> 
> > So I don't know for sure why Rick is seeing things offset to the east so much.
> >
> > When I use either Jeremy's or my own geo files, the positioning of the DTX
> > radar image appears to be the same as the positioning of the radar data on
> > the Ridge web site images to within eyeball norm.  The images are slightly
> > elliptical as expected, but not dramatically so.
> >
> When I load Jeremy's file, it all straightened out.  So I did a careful 
> comparison with mine, and discovered another typo. The image is 600x550, 
> and I calculated the values that way, byt my second tiepoint was delared 
> to be 599,449, a full 100 pixels off, which explains the extreme 
> stretching.
>    My algorithm was OK, but my fingers are too fat, and my eyeballs aren't 
> as sharp as they used to be...

Nor mine --- I missed that, too.  Glad it's working now.

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