From 5040e3403077666e9795f0550d62293a736ac373 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Hofmann Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 17:13:21 +0200 Subject: README updates --- README | 9 ++++++--- 1 file 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: -,,,,, + ,,,,, and 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 , where you can download a suitable file containg quite a lot of data mostly -- cgit v1.2.3