Re: Small bug in Sanselan

[Charles Matthew Chen <ch...@gmail.com>]

Hi Jon,

   Thanks so much for the patch.  I'm aiming to do a new build soon
and I'll be sure to include it.

Thanks,
   Charles.

ps. I've cc'd the sanselan-dev mailing list.


On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Jon Anders Amundsen
<jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I want to report a small bug in Sanselan in the convenience functions to
> read GPS data.
>
> In the class org.cmc.sanselan.formats.tiff.TiffImageMetadata.GPSInfo there
> are two functions called getLongitudeAsDegreesEast() and
> getLatitudeAsDegreesNorth() which is affected by the bug.
>  These functions will return a position that may be several kilometers wrong
> because of a small calculation error. These two functions assume that there
> are 360 seconds in one degree, while the correct number is 3600. This is on
> line number 369 and 384 (according to the file in release 0.91).
>
> I have attached a .diff-file that will fix the bug.
>
> --
> Jon Anders Amundsen
> MSc Student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
> Department of Computer and Information Science
>