[sword-devel] Picture Bible proposal

[Matt Reimer]

On 8/21/07, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> One of the things I would like to see is picture indexing. That is, for
> a map, a point (x,y) or a region (x1,y1,x2,y2) could be associated with
> a label. This could be done with a variation of Troy's Papyrus tagger.
> These labeled locations could be stored in an adjunct module type as
> tuples (imageFilePath, image dimensions, Label, coordinates). Any module
> having images could be augmented with this adjunct.
>
> Then one could use the adjunct module as a Dictionary to do lookups. The
> coordinates could be used to overlay an outline for regions or an arrow
> (or X) for points.

Ideally each image would also specify latitude and longitude for at
least two corners so the image could be transformed. I'm thinking of
Google Earth images, or the nice satellite maps in the NET Bible.

Matt