larryc@porter.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Carroll) (04/17/91)
I've been given the job of writing a program that will read images of maps into a window & then draw an overlay (which will include some text) on top of the map. This would allow us to input a map of Mars & draw the locations of suggested landing sites on the map, draw paths to be taking by mobile experiment platforms, and so on. I've been looking at several public domain programs that do one or the other (image display & drawing), but so far haven't found a program that does both. Is there one? Or a commercial package that does it? Or is there a commercial drawing program that can read in a background image before doing drawings? If none of these exist, what kind of data structures make most sense in doing this sort of thing. The two images have to be tied to each other somehow, so that when a region of the image is selected for a zoom, both layers zoom together. larryc@puente.jpl.nasa.gov
kk@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Konstantinos Konstantinides) (04/18/91)
The program "editimage" from "khoros" does exactly what you want. You can display images, annotate them with text, lines, circles, etc., compine the annotation with the image, zoom, and much more. Khoros is free from the Un. of New Mexico and runs on a variety of machines. Similar software is available from Paragon Imaging. K. Konstantinides HP Laboratories kk@hpkronos.hpl.hp.com