G’day all,

Just been scouting software for my column this month and found an awesome looking piece of software for climbers across the globe (and it’s free, but you’ll need Linux or some other Unix based OS).

Check it out at:

http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/gipfel.html

Description

Description:

gipfel helps to find the names of mountains or points of interest on a picture.

It uses a database containing names and GPS data. With the given viewpoint (the point from which the picture was taken) and two known mountains on the picture, gipfel can compute all parameters needed to compute the positions of other mountains on the picture.

gipfel can also be used to play around with the parameters manually. But be warned: It is pretty difficult to find the right parameters for a given picture manually.

You can think of gipfel as a georeferencing software for arbitrary images (not only satelite images or maps).

gipfel also has an image stitching mode, which allows to generate panorama images from multiple images that have been referenced with gipfel. The nice thing about the new image stitching is that it reuses the code that already existed for referencing images.

Hope that’s of use, particularly when going through old archives. 🙂

Cheers!

John