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I looked at the GeoTIFF specs about a year ago and they seem pretty
straight forward. What needs to be done before we start adding bitmap
support is add support for datum/projection conversions. Displaying
the bitmaps are pretty easy, placing them properly within the context
of the larger map and with the proper geometric "adjustments" (skew,
rotation) is the difficult part. I want to get the conversion methods
into the next development version, but I'm not sure if with everything
else that's on the to-do list for the next version if it'll be
reasonable to add in bitmaps yet. I think I'm going to have to play
that one by ear for now.<br>
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The conversion code will need to be added before any more vector
formats are added as well. All other (documented) vector formats that
I'm aware of carry their datum/projection information with them. The
shape format doesn't carry any information about it's datum/projection
(in the official whitepaper) so it's pretty easy to just display the
file and not worry about all that because the user *should* already be
aware of it. I'm not sure if there is any reliable documentation on
the format of the .prj file that some ESRI packages create, if you know
of any, please let me know.<br>
<br>
John<br>
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<p> <span>Any plans to add GeoTIFF support into SDN? I noticed that
there is some code floating around that references imaging support, but
nothing
functional is in SDN yet. I created a simple demo to render a bmp
image w/
additional geo location information (gis info was stored in a txt file)
in SDN
but nothing really useful….GeoTIFF is what is really needed. Later. </span>
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