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Kelvin Richardson

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Hi all,

I have added a tool in the resources section that creates raster tif images from shapefiles for use with blend and water masking. So far, my tool reads the areaearthinfo text file from fsearthtiles for dimensions and coordinates and uses that data to create a tile from the shapefile to match the aerial image ie using a water area shapefile, the mask would contain all water areas within the aerial image removing the tedious manual work of tracing these areas.

I use photoshop so I just add the mask as a layer onto the aerial image then magic wand the area I want to mask and colour that as per the defined masking colours for the sim.

Once done I save and re import meta data the tool exported, into the water and blend tif files then I resample accordingly.

I am working on programming the tool to process tif files without fset also.

The underlying processor is gdaltools but my programming makes this automated for as many files as you need to process, in my case I'm doing my entire country so I have over 500 images.

I am also in initial stages of programming the automation of this tool to create and process resample files for single or multiple seasons making my program a one stop shop for water and blend masking.

More info to come...
 
Update, I have completed the code for the Tif shape to raster steps as well as reprojection back to the image. I am adding a new feature and the code is ready, I am incorporating an automated resample creation tool as I have found everything available is all levers and pulleys (not to devalue the effort put into those apps). I believe this will be the next best thing since fs Earth tiles, but it goes hand in hand.
 
Hi all,

Another update...

I am currently in testing phase of my tool. Once this is done I will write some documentation and then will be released to the wild.

So far testing proves to be successful. I will be providing active support also and will also look at developing a video tutorial through the entire process.
 
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