Wow, how extremely useful! Thank you, Andreas. I implemented the deep link and you can see it on the following map, which I had originally linked to (it's lower down along the right sidebar):<div><br></div><div><a href="http://mapknitter.org/map/view/mestia">http://mapknitter.org/map/view/mestia</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I'll probably style it more like a button so that people see it. I also made it show up only for maps which are licensed Creative Commons Attribution or dedicated to the public domain.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Issue tracker: <a href="https://github.com/jywarren/mapknitter/issues/96">https://github.com/jywarren/mapknitter/issues/96</a></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again. I made it possible to use OSM as a reference layer for rectification so that it's possible to "bootstrap" by using existing ODBL/CC-BY-SA data to rectify balloon imagery.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I also think there's a lot of promise for those simply taking photos out the window of their airplane flight with a good camera -- especially when the plane is banking :-)</div><div><br></div><div>
Jeff<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Andreas Trawoeger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atrawog@kartenwerkstatt.at">atrawog@kartenwerkstatt.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Jeff!<br>
<br>
I don't have much insight into the Potlatch2 code myself, but you can<br>
easily call Potlach2 with your own coordinates and TMS layers and I'm<br>
using that feature a lot.<br>
<br>
For example <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=48.3184&lon=14.3121&zoom=17&tileurl=http://tms3857.kartenwerkstatt.at/tiles/1.0.0/OGD_LINZ_ORTHO_EPSG3857/$z/$x/$y.png?origin=nw" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=48.3184&lon=14.3121&zoom=17&tileurl=http://tms3857.kartenwerkstatt.at/tiles/1.0.0/OGD_LINZ_ORTHO_EPSG3857/$z/$x/$y.png?origin=nw</a><br>
puts you in the middle of Linz, Austria with an orthoimages background<br>
based on Austrian OGD data fetched from my server.<br>
<br>
Greetings to Mapknitter.org<br>
<br>
cu andreas<br>
<br>
2012/3/9 Jeffrey Warren <<a href="mailto:jeff@publiclaboratory.org">jeff@publiclaboratory.org</a>>:<br>
<div><div class="h5">> Hello - I was just enjoying the "add a TMS background" feature in Potlatch 2<br>
> (feel free to tell me to go to a different mailing list) and I created a<br>
> brief guide to inserting your DIY balloon mapping aerial imagery (grassroots<br>
> mapping/public laboratory style) as a background:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/editing-openstreetmap-balloon-maps" target="_blank">http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/editing-openstreetmap-balloon-maps</a><br>
> (using data from )<br>
><br>
> It was kind of remarkable to me that the balloon maps seem to be well within<br>
> the precision of the GPS used to make the existing map of Mestia, Georgia.<br>
> In some areas, just based on how the GPS tracks wiggle on a straight road,<br>
> it seemed that the balloon map is a pretty great resource for filling in<br>
> detail (once it's well rectified, of course). See the screenshots in the<br>
> page above.<br>
><br>
> Anyhow, I'm the main developer for MapKnitter.org, which is where most<br>
> grassroots balloon/kite mappers in our community are rectifying their<br>
> imagery. I was thinking it'd be really nice to add a "Use your map to<br>
> contribute to OpenStreetMap" link/button, which could deep-link into a<br>
> Potlatch 2 page with the layer already set up.<br>
><br>
> Is that kind of deep linking something anyone is interested in collaborating<br>
> on? I can do all the integration from the MapKnitter side but don't have<br>
> much experience with Potlatch code. I could also put this in as a Google<br>
> Summer of Code idea but maybe it's too use-specific and actually too small<br>
> of a project.<br>
><br>
> Just wondering if this was interesting to folks.<br>
><br>
> Jeff<br>
><br>
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