Calculate and display exported image dimensions from selected cm/px export resolutions

[jywarren]

Some maps are stalling and hitting on the right resolution isn't easy. See these 2 stalled maps:

Note we don't see output resolution until they're complete, and they probably crashed or stalled.

We should be able to calculate at least roughly what the output dimensions in pixels would look like for a given cm/px export, using the new cloud exporter.

Let's try to use the image collection bounds and the cm/px to estimate the output dimensions. We can even say that 10cm/px would result in HxW dimensions and 100 in HxW - in the dialog box where you enter the resolution.

Here is the calculation for x,y pixel dimensions in Ruby, from the exporter code:

https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter-exporter/blob/db65afbbeccdecedc3c50fa43bbeea3103f3d546/lib/mapknitterExporter.rb#L66-L70

The full exact calculation can be found in this file, using the Proj4.js library to calculate latitude,longitude => x,y projection:

https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer-app/blob/fad302f2d15745414bb362f28806a8568b4001c3/src/api/v2/util/converter-multiSequencer.js#L53-L61

This code is a bit tangled up but we could pull out the relevant portions into a JS function that accepts scale and a set of lat/lon bounds, and outputs x,y dimensions. This would be a great first step!

[roli25]

@jywarren Can I work on this?

[jywarren]

Hi @roli25 sure we'd love your help with this. How would you approach the calculation, do you think?