PhotoLayer plugin - Satellite GeoTiffs with transparency

[Rasbats]

Working with VentureFarther (Jon Turgeon) and MAP2CMAPCNET (John Thorn), also Bill Stockton (Chartaid) this new plugin overlays GeoTiff satellite photos on top of the navigation chart. The transparency can be adjusted, allowing easy comparison of features from the chart with the photo.

v0.1 release is here:

https://github.com/Rasbats/photolayer_pi/releases

Windows installer with the release.

Transparency works fully with OpenGL.

GeoTiffs can be downloaded from the VentureFarther website (www.venturefarther.com). Set the 'KAP/GeO' switch to 'GEO'. They can also be made from satellite kaps using MAP2CMAPCNET (convert to GeoTiff (mercator lat/lon)). There are probably other sources. Please let us know of those that work.

Massive help to develop this plugin came from WeatherFax_pi (Sean D'Epagnier) and Bill Stockton (Chartaid).

Comments and bug reports always appreciated.

Mike

p.s. New thread due to typo in the old one. Apologies.

Old thread posts can be found here:
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...cy-194689.html

[rgleason]

I loaded the beach image gif. Got an unknown field error, hit OK and it shows.
Transparancy and contrast work well.
Nice beach on England south coast shores.

[rgleason]

From the Venture Farther website, I selected a Geotif of Boston and hit Generate.
Then downloaded to my new Geotif directory.
In OpenCPN with Photolayer I loaded the file and it overlayed.,

[Rasbats]

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The warning is due to an unidentifed geotag. It does not affect the working of the plugin. Jon Turgeon will be looking at this. The warning will not appear if you convert a satellite kap to GeoTiff (mercator lat/lon) using MAP2C.

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Very interesting using the GeoTiffs from SASPlanet. OpenTopoMaps give you the road maps that other users have requested. I am working on a HOWTO for the wiki at the moment.

Mike

[Rasbats]

A comprehensive guide to using the PhotoLayer plugin has now been published on the wiki:

https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/do...ins:photolayer

Mike

[Gilletarom]

Hello Mike,

Here, VNF - Voies navigables de France - Cartes Ecdis , VNF - Waterways of France - Ecdis Maps, one can download the ECDIS maps of the "Moselle canalized". This card pack comes with "Tif" format photos.
I tried to use the first of these photo "4V059B296701" but without success.
Photolayer is unable to display it.

See the screenshot attached, the error indicated by the plugin.

[Rasbats]

The files from VNF - Voies navigables de France - Cartes Ecdis are pure ENC and TIF. The ENC work fine with an ECDIS viewer and also OpenCPN.

Fantastic resource.

The TIF files are just images of the locks etc.

PhotoLayer works with GeoTiff files such as those made from SASPlanet, VentureFarther etc.

Mike

[Rasbats]

Linux developers ...

I have been fighting libgeotiff for a number of days. Compiled my own version with support for XTIFF but I get the message "Undefined symbol 'XTIFFOpen'" in the OpenCPN log when trying to load the PhotoLayer plugin. The plugin is looking for an EXTERN function from 'XTIFF.c". XTIFF does not compile as a separate library.

Not sure if I have made any sense (= Linux novice) but if someone knows how to link to an external function in a '.c' file could they post some ideas.

Mike

[Capt.Don]

Very nice-thank you!!! Now to convert all my KAP satellite images to GeoTif.

[did-g]

Originally Posted by Rasbats

Linux developers ...

I have been fighting libgeotiff for a number of days. Compiled my own version with support for XTIFF but I get the message "Undefined symbol 'XTIFFOpen'" in the OpenCPN log when trying to load the PhotoLayer plugin. The plugin is looking for an EXTERN function from 'XTIFF.c". XTIFF does not compile as a separate library.

Not sure if I have made any sense (= Linux novice) but if someone knows how to link to an external function in a '.c' file could they post some ideas.

Mike

Missing a library? Or your using visibility hidden, could you push your changes? , I'll have a look.

[Rasbats]

Thanks Didier.

Nothing has been changed in the code since v0.1. "xtiffio.h" has the EXTERN declaration of XTIFFOpen.

For Windows "xtiffio.h" is in "libgeotiff/libxtiff" made when I setup the pre-requisites, using the instructions here:

dominoc925: How to build 64-bit versions of libgeotiff for Windows

For Linux I compiled proj4/libtiff/libgeotiff using the instructions here:

SciGeo.org: HOW TO: Install latest geospatial & scientific software on Linux

And tried to link to the libraries made. The plugin compiles with several warnings but does not start.

Mike

[nohal]

Mike...
By XTIFF you mean https://github.com/ufz/geotiff/tree/master/libxtiff?

Can you push the code you have to github?

Pavel

[Rasbats]

Pavel ...

Not exactly. I got a tar.gz file in order to follow the SciGeo.org guide.
http://download.osgeo.org/geotiff/li...f-1.4.0.tar.gz

The source code for photolayer_pi is here:

https://github.com/Rasbats/photolayer_pi

Mike

[nohal]

Mike...
Like this it can't work as you are not actually linking against libgeotiff at all. I will send you a pull request in a while.

Pavel

[did-g]

Originally Posted by Rasbats

Thanks Didier.

Nothing has been changed in the code since v0.1. "xtiffio.h" has the EXTERN declaration of XTIFFOpen.

For Windows "xtiffio.h" is in "libgeotiff/libxtiff" made when I setup the pre-requisites, using the instructions here:

dominoc925: How to build 64-bit versions of libgeotiff for Windows

For Linux I compiled proj4/libtiff/libgeotiff using the instructions here:

SciGeo.org: HOW TO: Install latest geospatial & scientific software on Linux

And tried to link to the libraries made. The plugin compiles with several warnings but does not start.

Mike

Ok what's missing is the library

first let try with whatever is in debian
sudo apt-get install libgeotiff-dev

Should install libgeotiff

then apply patch, it's a text file(copy an paste from portaudio).

it adds -lgeotiff to the makefile


If system geotiff isn't good enough you have to compile it in your plugin... best could be static.

Here it compiles and run but no tiff for testing (very poor connectivity)