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I am developing an AR iOS application. When the iPhone gets the current location, it has to calculate locally the visible point. I want to read the tiff files in my application, and then get the coordinates and altitudes from it.(locally, offline) I am looking for an open source C++ code, or something like this. Please help

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What have you tried so far? – R.K. Oct 25 '12 at 10:51
I have extracted from the TIFF file the coordinates and altitudes using VTBuilder. Now I have a txt file with a size of 1 Gb, but this is too large for a mobile application. I don't know if I am on the right way but probably the txt file can be compressed somehow. It has to be decoded locally when I get the current location.. – Emese Fabian Oct 25 '12 at 11:25
So you get the current coordinate from a GPS fix and then find its corresponding point on the tiff file and put a marker there? – R.K. Oct 25 '12 at 11:30
I get the current coordinate from a GPS fix and using the tiff file, I have to get an array of coordinates of the visible points from my current location, this can be made only by using the altitudes of the coordinates. – Emese Fabian Oct 25 '12 at 11:35
Oh, you'll be doing viewshed analysis on your phone. Libgeotiff should be able to get the coordinates and read the values for you though you'll have to implement a viewshed algorithm. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewshed_Analysis – R.K. Oct 25 '12 at 11:40
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Libgeotiff should do the job.

Libgeotiff is an open source library normally hosted on top of libtiff for reading, and writing GeoTIFF information tags.

I think you'll need CPL_DLL GTIFImageToPCS

Translate a pixel/line coordinate to projection coordinates.

and CPL_DLL GTIFKeyGet

This function reads the value of a single GeoKey from a GeoTIFF file.

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I know the Libgeotiff library but it doesn't have a useful documentation or some examples on how to get data from TIFF files. – Emese Fabian Oct 25 '12 at 11:40

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