MFM Junction Vew

[chinwy]

Randering picture in programs like Photoshop / Illustrator will do most of the tirck irrespactive of image quality or signboard detail if you want top of the line Kia-Su approach. An easier option is use Visio technical - a lot easier than Illustrator and can still be ported to Illustrator in the future. In Visio you can overlay the image and trace out the necessary road.

Personally, I see this issue being handle in 2 phase. 1 - Getting a resonable picture and 2 converting it to vector.

Weekend now so I may download some of your images and play with them.

Having converted to vector format resizing it and output to any format is a breeze.

There are still a couple of bridges I forsee but will corss the first test first before adding more questions into the pot.

[fancheng]

Continue....2nd junction.

Second Junction With Signboard.jpg

2nd Junction Nearer view, can't see Signboard.jpg

This one still not near enough......That's all for today.

Bro edchuang

BTW I think when we take photo of junction we have set the camera focus to infinity, so that all view are clear.

[edchuang (retired)]

edchuang,

No offense. I think mobile phone shots cannot make it (even with Nokia N-series).

Good photos with sharp wordings, clear signage and overall brightness (daylight) is essential to produce good JCV graphics (using automated tools or manual human work).

Thus, I strongly suggest using an above average digital camera (not those mobile phones) with at least 3.1 megapixel, set to maximum resolution to take the photos.

Yup. Bro chaicka, fully agree with you. This is just for a feel and practice purposes to estimate the distance and angle for myself. At the sametime stimulate the junction view discussions.
Just can't sit down waiting for weekend to take some good shot.

Bro fancheng,

Noted your advice. Hope can shoot some nice JV with Bro 76gpsguy during our trip to attend your Seremban GG this Sunday morning.

Bro Chinwy,

Will send you some better photo Sunday evening if everthing went well after Seremban GG.

[fancheng]

Bro fancheng,

Noted your advice. Hope can shoot some nice JV with Bro 76gpsguy during our trip to attend your Seremban GG this Sunday morning.

Wa.... wa.... Bro 76gpsguy also coming

Bro edchuang, what model camera you using ? some camera use this "∞" or "mountain" symbol, there have others symbol, for analog camera mostly there use "∞" symbol.

[edchuang (retired)]

Bro edchuang, what model camera you using ? some camera use this "∞" or "mountain" symbol, there have others symbol, for analog camera mostly there use "∞" symbol.

I convinced Bro 76gpsguy to attend along with me. So you must spend us lunch liao
By the way, I have two camera, one Nikon and one Kodak. Both not very high end one. Will try to borrow one high end one from my cousin. I thinks my camera's use "Fuji Mountain" symbol if I am not mistaken.

C U Sunday.

[fancheng]

Bro edchuang, what model camera you using ? some camera use this "∞" or "mountain" symbol, there have others symbol, for analog camera mostly there use "∞" symbol.

I convinced Bro 76gpsguy to attend along with me. So you must spend us lunch liao
By the way, I have two camera, one Nikon and one Kodak. Both not very high end one. Will try to borrow one high end one from my cousin. I thinks my camera's use "Fuji Mountain" symbol if I am not mistaken.

C U Sunday.

No problem, happy to spend you guys for lunch.

BTW check the manual book I think all Digital camera focus can set to infinity.

[9W2CBL]

All right we can discuss more on this GG!!! See you all this coming sunday as 2nd GG Seremban.. Most important is safe driving there!

[chinwy]

This is a quickie job done on the Westport photo. Image was converted to vector using Visio and output to JPG. abt 1 hrs work, considering have to re learn Visio after not using for 2 years.

Have omitted buildings and road divider but for now will be sufficient for the first test.

What is interesting is the image size. Original image was 448 x 336, 92K new image is 495 x 376, 17K. I would expect the image to increase in size with more detail put in but still will be much smaller overall.

[alyem]

This is a quickie job done on the Westport photo. Image was converted to vector using Visio and output to JPG. abt 1 hrs work, considering have to re learn Visio after not using for 2 years.

Have omitted buildings and road divider but for now will be sufficient for the first test.

What is interesting is the image size. Original image was 448 x 336, 92K new image is 495 x 376, 17K. I would expect the image to increase in size with more detail put in but still will be much smaller overall.

[zamad]

... Image was converted to vector using Visio and output to JPG.

Once it is converted to JPG, then it becomes raster again. But what format do we really need? Is it vector or raster?