[OSRS-PROJ] orthographic projection with proj4 and mapserver.
Gerald I. Evenden
gerald.evenden at verizon.net
Wed Aug 13 17:58:27 PDT 2003
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 18:32, Craig Bruce wrote:
> "Gerald I. Evenden" <gerald.evenden at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > Whatever "on-the-fly" means?
> >
> > Presumably "mapserver" is some kind of graphic program.
>
> "On-the-fly" presumably means that the source data is reprojected in real
> time as requested when the map is drawn. The "map server" is likely an
> OpenGISĀ® Consortium Web Map Server (OGC WMS):
Hmmm, "on-the-fly", I didn't know there was any other way.
...
>
> Proper graphical clipping is a tough problem. It looks like the specific
> problem in this case is with the polygons that are half visible and half
> invisible. The invisible vertices appear to be all substituted with (0,0)
> coordinates, though I thought that the PROJ.4 library used -infinity as
> its 'invalid coordinate' value. To plot such a polygon mathematically
> correctly, you'd need to cut it in two (or more) pieces along the line of
> the horizon of the projection, which would be a smooth curve in this case.
> Other short-cut cheats are also possible.
Indeed, not a trivial problem. In all the map graphics that I use in
the PROJ.4 manuals, only vector plotting was performed. The clipping
problem for vectors is much simpler than polygons---that's why I didn't
fill the continental outlines. ;-)
BTW, libproj4 forward routine returns HUGE_VAL when it cannot project a
point. Program [l]proj returns an "*". The HUGE_VAL method has been
in PROJ.4 use for a *long* time so I suspect that the problem lay in
the calling software.
--
Gerald I. Evenden <gerald.evenden at verizon.net>
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