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An Open-Source, Object-Oriented General Cartographic Transformation Program (GCTP)

An Open-Source, Object-Oriented General Cartographic Transformation Program (GCTP). Michael S. Williams, Michael P. Finn *, and Robert A. Buehler** United States Geological Survey National Geospatial Technical Operations Center. * Presenting author

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An Open-Source, Object-Oriented General Cartographic Transformation Program (GCTP)

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  1. An Open-Source, Object-Oriented General Cartographic Transformation Program (GCTP) Michael S. Williams, Michael P. Finn*, and Robert A. Buehler** United States Geological Survey National Geospatial Technical Operations Center * Presenting author ** Now with University of Missouri – Rolla, Department of Computer Science

  2. Outline • Motivation • Goals • Background • Design • Class Structure • Interface • Adding New Projections • Conclusions • References

  3. Motivation • Object-Oriented software development popularity growing • Many existing libraries written in procedural languages (C, for example) • Many current solutions involve using these procedural libraries within object-oriented frameworks (i.e. “wrapping” them) • Preferable to have a natively object-oriented library to use

  4. Goals (Do’s and Don’ts) • Don’t completely reinvent the wheel • Don’t just make a wrapper • Do use existing algorithms • Do make it simple to use • Do make it easy to extend

  5. Background • General Coordinate Transformation Package (GCTP) • Originally written in Fortran • Later converted to C • Still very widely used

  6. Background • Original GCTP interface very cumbersome.

  7. Background • Original interface uses 19 parameters! • Calling the gctp function results in much redundant code execution. • How can we improve this?

  8. Design

  9. Design • Simple Design • Each supported projection contained in a single class. • Each object inherits from the base class “Projection”. • Projection class provides a common interface.

  10. Design • What’s old and what’s new • Old • Still supports the use of the 15 element projection parameter array. • Core projection algorithms exactly the same. • New • Supports the use of get / set functions to view and modify projection parameters. • No more 19 parameter function calls!!

  11. Design Parameter Array Variable Declarations Output Units Datum Object Instantiation Forward Transformation Inverse Transformation

  12. Design Setting Parameters

  13. Adding New Projections • Basic Steps • 1.) Derive a new class from “Projection” • 2.) Implement the protected _init(), _forward(), and _inverse() functions. • 3.) If the new projection uses specific entries in the parameter array, implement the _loadFromParams() function.

  14. Adding New Projections (example) Constructors Core Projection Function Declarations

  15. Adding New Projections (example) Transformation results must be stored in m_x_coord and m_y_coord, which are inherited from the “Projection” base class.

  16. Adding New Projections (example) First, a call must be made to the base class parameter loading function Here, the UTM specific parameters are pulled from the parameter array. Here, the UTM projection class member m_zone is assigned a value based on the lat/lon values pulled from the parameter array.

  17. Conclusions • We have developed an object-oriented version of an existing, widely used projection library. • We have made this library much easier to use than the previous version. We have also made it easy to extend. • Currently, the library is still in beta testing. Further testing needs to be done to check projection accuracy. • For further information (download available soon for the latest version), please visit the following website: http://carto-research.er.usgs.gov/

  18. http://carto-research.er.usgs.gov/ An Open-Source, Object-Oriented GCTP Michael S. Williams, Michael P. Finn, and Robert A. Buehler United States Geological Survey National Geospatial Technical Operations Center

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