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Elevation (z) offset and scaling. #42

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lidar532 opened this issue May 31, 2014 · 5 comments
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Elevation (z) offset and scaling. #42

lidar532 opened this issue May 31, 2014 · 5 comments

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@lidar532
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It would be very nice to be able to set offset and scale for the z values.

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verma commented May 31, 2014

I get the scaling part, it'd be nice to scale out the Z axis to see more detail. How do you think the offset part would work?

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Greetings!

Very nice project you have there.. Before scaling, would be nice to add
an offset. I will frequently offset to translate from one vertical datum
to another. For example, from wgs84 to sea level or navd88. Another
reason would be if you could load two data sets at the same time and each
was in a different vertical datum, you could offset one or the other
of them to agree.

I would very much like to learn more about plasio. I'm interested to see
if we could extend it to do manual point cloud editing, and some analysis.

Best
Wayne

On Saturday, May 31, 2014, Uday Verma notifications@github.com wrote:

I get the scaling part, it'd be nice to scale out the Z axis to see more
detail. How do you think the offset part would work?


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hobu commented Jun 1, 2014

I will say that it is probably out of scope for plasio to be doing real vertical datum transformations. The software for doing that isn't really web-ready.

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lidar532 commented Jun 1, 2014

Hi Howard,

I agree that a real datum transform is out of scope; however, simply
applying a fixed vertical offset is still very useful.

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Wayne

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I will say that it is probably out of scope for plasio to be doing real
vertical datum transformations. The software for doing that isn't really
web-ready.


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#42 (comment).

“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.”
-Albert Einstein

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603-994-8796 Fax

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hobu commented Jun 2, 2014

Out of scope for the short term, anyway. proj.4 in the browser with datum transformation might not be forever far away http://howardbutler.com/back-to-the-future-again.html

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