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[gil]

Extracting Data from a JPG

[SarahKiddo]

Maybe you would care to explain to us what footage is?

[gil]

[Fi]

Long time no see fellow Surrey-ite

Maybe it's worth asking Spacebass if it's ok to link to your Footage Forum in the Various and Sundry topic - I know that alot of people here are into Gibson and especially that book. And I also happen to know that he's just finished reading it

And come and join us in the Project Syzygy/Perplex City forum, which is starting to kick off

Fi

[SarahKiddo]

Thanks! Well, my comp seems to have the same problem yours did with the picture, so maybe if you posted the whole thing...

I dunno, on TV they do that kind of image sharpening with the click of a button. But I think if you were meant to determine location, it would be pixelated (it is sometimes possible to decode this, if the pixels are just scrambled instead of replaced) but blurring it...
all i can say is, keep a lookout for less blurry logos like it.
Maybe something else in the picture is the key?

[gil]

[gil]

[ustice]

Is that not a rail car? look at this: http://www.traincollectors.org/images/2001tank.jpg

This one gives some bad news...
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/tr_csx993368.jpg

Those numbers might just be an ID number... I doubt that we would ever be able to get those numbers with any degree of accuracy...

[Sarah Kiddo]

[Sarah K]

looked at it again.

The place you are looking for is a train (notice the odd shaped reflection? The window on the other side of the car. which is why everything is blurry)

does this help? I'm not sure how percise phootage has to be

[gil]

Groan... It had never occurred to me it might be a railway. That tanker still looks like a road tanker to me, though. I agree that if the logo is a serial number ID, we're in trouble.

[ustice]

There is tracks too...

[Dorkmaster]

I concur that it is not only a railway tanker (near if not in the station) that it is also taken from within a passenger train (rail car), as evidenced by the various reflections on the "window area". It is most interesting, however, that the stairway shown in the center of the two rails, then, would seem to indicate (potentially) that this is more of an inter-urban system, as opposed to a "move things from here to there" kind of thing... (am I making sense with that point?) Not to mention, that tanker then, would be pretty small compared to other tanker-cars I've seen. It just seems shorter in that picture than the ones shown in the other pictures that ustice posted, for example... that could just be perspective, however...

anyway, that's my 2 farthings.

[Dorkmaster]

Oh, and not that this helps AT ALL, but it's definitely not anywhere in the Chicagoland area, from my experience. Doesn't look like an EL stop, and definitely not a Metra or AMTRAK station near here...

[Alzheimers]

I'm surprised noone responded to this post back in August.