Category: NZTekonverse -> Linux
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Life with Buster
Well I rushed to get Buster on most of my computers yesterday and this was mostly straightforward. The exception being of course mainpc which ran out of disk space while running the apt upgrade command due to the number of new packages downloaded and installed. There can be literally thousands of packages needed for an…
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Debian Buster Release due soon
Debian Buster (Debian 10) has been in development for the last few years, and it is expected to be released about the middle of this year. As was described in some earlier posts, I have had Buster running on some of my systems in the past, but not in the last year or so. However…
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Python Scripting [3F]: Layer Fractional Segments for NZ Rail Maps 6
Today’s little bit of fun and games has been to change the script so that it can read in a list file and process a list of source layers and produce the world and auxiliary files for them. Last night I discovered there was some additional aerial photos available for OtiraNorth area, for which I…
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Python Scripting [3E]: Layer Fractional Segments for NZ Rail Maps 5
I made a lot of progress on this on Wednesday, mainly due to dropping nearly everything else and pushing on to finish it. After testing it, which so far has worked well, I decided to add an extra step to the workflow. The source layer (base layer) is a jpg file and we are making…
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Python Scripting [3D]: Layer Fractional Segments for NZ Rail Maps 4
Continuing from our last post, we now want to find tile segments that need world files written for them and generate those files. The code to do this (from the steps outlined previously is: Strip the extension off the base file (92XJ7-92MKF.jgw) so that we get 92XJ7-92MKF: baseNameBase = os.path.splitext(baseName)[0] Split the filename at the…