Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : e-foto Version : 2016.06.425 * URL : http://www.efoto.eng.uerj.br/ * License : GPL Description : Educational Digital Photogrammetry Workstation
Beta version of E-foto. Contains some bugs that may affect your work. This is an academic initiative to develop free software for Digital Photogrammetry. The E-Foto project has been in development at the Photogrammetry Lab of the Rio de Janeiro State University’s School of Engineering since 2004. . The idea behind the E-Foto project was to offer a simple set of software (a free Digital Photogrammetric Workstation) that could help students understand the principles behind Photogrammetry, thus bypassing eventual costs that would have barred many from learning about Photogrammetry. This objective was reached through the development of free and user-friendly photogrammetric software. . This project is multidisciplinary. It involves several fields of knowledge, including Mathematical Modeling, Geodesy, Photogrammetry, and Software Engineering. . The project is based on two main principles (pillars): freedom and self-teaching. The final idea is to lead the students to fully understand the principles behind Photogrammetry by reading the e-book, using the software, taking a look at its source code, and even modifying it or developing new modules for it. I got a draft debian/ directory to build the package based on the upstream binray deb. Unfortunately this build is using Qt 4. Not sure if the source will build with Qt 5, it did not when I tested, but I did not spend time on trying to get it to work. It might be useful to maintain this package within the Debian GIS group, <URL: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis >. -- Happy hacking, Petter Reinholdtsen
