hello everybody
i have been using bentley descartes for 2months now, and i still find some difficulty with geo-referencing with the software. I hav a raster with me dat i want to geo-reference. The raster has coordinate points (like 740500N, 533800E and so on). i have already vectorized it (thou i know it wld hav been better if i had geo-referenced the raster b4 vectorizing).......i nw wanna georeference the vector data with d coordinates on d raster.......
wld appreciate if someone can explain hw i shld go bout it in a simplified manner, so i wld get it once and for all....
Thanks
Regards dipson(Assistant Product Manager)
Computer Designs System Services Nig Ltd (Bentley Partner in Nigeria)
Hi Dipson,
First I find it strange that the geo-referenced image was not located in the rectangle after the registering process. Maybe sister file created was not used according to your Raster Manager related preferences?
Descartes can only geo-reference images. But according to your coordinate you should be able to use standard MicroStation moving and scaling tools to position your vector and your raster correctly without using Bentley Descartes' register tool.
Here is an video showing how to place your raster with some vector on it using standard MicroStation move and scale tool :
Finally for the blank image the 4pts or + projective requires that at least 4 pair of points linearly independent (e.g. : not co-linear) be specified. But according to your coordinates using a projective transformation is not recommended. A 2 pts or + similitude transform should do the trick.
HTH,
Mathieu
Thanks Mathew, really appreciate hope u have a great weekend......
dipson
Hi,
You don't absolutely need an already corrected/georeferenced image to register an image. If you know the correct location of some pixels in your image you want to register you can simply enter those locations in the Modify Control Point dialog available by clicking on Register dialog->Edit->Modify Controls Points.. menu.
You can also register your image from a model. Here is a short video showing a simple the registration of your .jpeg file to a rectangle element around the original position of the .jpeg file.
and also
the image has some known points i.e distance in metres, and plannin to use these list of known point to georeference the raster.....hw do u think i can go about it.
i tried using macrostation to georeference (using the define frm placemark) , i realized dats it was the design file i georeferenced not the image making the image not correctly placed
the problem am having is that to register and image wit descartes, i must use a already corrected/ georeferenced image to register it. but am lookin for a way to georeference the image 1st of all
thank you 4 ur help
regards