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authorJohannes Hofmann <Johannes.Hofmann@gmx.de>2008-07-06 17:13:21 +0200
committerJohannes Hofmann <Johannes.Hofmann@gmx.de>2008-07-06 17:13:21 +0200
commit5040e3403077666e9795f0550d62293a736ac373 (patch)
tree038e7b787a46f1498aa99783eb6bb7b881011c71
parentfe5f4287cdcaeb7afd5feb55541a5bffb6a83851 (diff)
README updates
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index 440cd94..bf5a690 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ gipfel
Description
-----------
-gipfel helps to find the names of mountains or points of interest
+__gipfel__ helps to find the names of mountains or points of interest
on a picture.
It uses a database containing names and GPS data. With the given viewpoint
(the point from which the picture was taken) and two known mountains
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ gipfel also has an image stitching mode, which allows to generate
panorama images from multiple images that have been referenced with gipfel.
The nice thing about image stitching is that it reuses the code that
already exists for referencing images.
+gipfel uses the non-linear
+[least squares method](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_squares) to
+compute the viewing paramteres from the given data points.
Requirements
------------
@@ -73,12 +76,12 @@ As stated before, gipfel needs GPS input data. The input data must be
an ASCII file with one line per mountain / point of interest.
Each line must contain the following values separated by a comma:
-<SHORTNAME>,<NAME>,<DESCRIPTION>,<LATITUDE>,<LONGITUDE>,<HEIGHT>
+ <SHORTNAME>,<NAME>,<DESCRIPTION>,<LATITUDE>,<LONGITUDE>,<HEIGHT>
<SHORTNAME> and <DESCRIPTION> may be left empty.
The following line is a valid example:
-SMTSBG,Simetsberg,,47.56617,11.25358,1836
+ SMTSBG,Simetsberg,,47.56617,11.25358,1836
Fortunately, there is a great website <http://www.alpin-koordinaten.de>,
where you can download a suitable file containg quite a lot of data mostly