The subject line is a bit rhetorical, but captures the gist of an experiment this morning with its apparent answer. I post this experiment and its outcome mostly to learn any additional details, limitations, and insights from my friend and RS expert Jacub Vanko.
I’m getting ready to try this experiment for the first time: The original .rsproj was processed in epsg6480, and NAVD88 GEOID18, all units in metric. Then the epsg6480 ortho was exported.
[experimental_reprojection_Old_Tinker_Farm_Cemetery_-_existing_conditions_epsg6480_ortho.tiff]
Experiment: Will simply changing the coordinate system in the Ortho Projection Tool to epsg6484, (ftUS), units; then Render the orthographic projection; then export the ortho. Can RS handle ortho reprojection this way? … Or, does it require some other approach? e.g., reprocessing the entire mesh?
After the render, the result appears to have handled things just fine; RS has created a new: Ortho projection 3, I then renamed it in the UI to epsg6484 ortho and then exported.
[experimental_reprojection_Old_Tinker_Farm_Cemetery_-_existing_conditions_epsg6484_ortho.tiff]
Related to the orthos that RS produces; i.e., geotiffs and their associated world files, I was wondering if it might be possible to also create the sidecar projection file when exporting from RS. Or maybe in a future release of RS embedding all of those details into the geotiff itself?
