[gdal-dev] Google SoC idea...

[Craig Miller]

It works fairly well with vector data... perhaps doing the same thing based
on top of OGR?

I think Blue Marble Geographics has a free addon for this type of behavior
for Windows.  At least they did a few years ago.

Craig


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[mailto:gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Lucena, Ivan
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 8:40 PM
To: Yann Chemin
Cc: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Google SoC idea...

Yann,

I think that is OK to do that. I don't want to discourage you but just 
keep in mind that sometime, or very often, GIS/RS image are not very 
expressive by itself. That is even worse in low resolution thumbnail. 
Imagine that you want to show a collection of Landsat original 
multi-band files. Which band should you present in KDE or Explorer?

Try that: Run "foreach" or "for %f in" to call gdal_translate to copy 
large group of real-case-GIS/RS-files to PNG outputs files in another 
directory. Then open that directory on a file browser and take a look at 
those thumbnails. See how does it looks like.

Best regards,

Ivan

Yann Chemin wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> It may be a small thing but it might help people...
> 
> many OSs now have image browsers embedded. in MS it is in Explorer I
> believe, in KDE there is a thumbnail creator inside konqueror/dolphin.
> 
> could it be possible to make konqueror/dolphin for example, automatically
> create a thumbnail of RS images and GIS covers through GDAL?
> We could then have GIS/RS data previews the same way we have for standard
> camera pictures...
> 
> thanks,
> Yann
> 
> 
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