[HOT] Looking for maps of Lesotho

Tue Apr 15 02:26:42 UTC 2014

Well I've been busy contacting a number of institutions as well as the ones
that many here provided and gotten some good responses (where I've gotten
responses).

Pierre,

I've grabbed the Lesotho file from there and plan on trying it out once I
get a few more things sorted. Thank you for that

Mark,

Apologies I haven't gotten back to you. Thank you for your assistance, it
very much appreciated. You mentioned about needing images as GeoTiff
EPSG:4326 but when I looked at some suitable maps on the Texas Libraries
site I can not see anything but JPEG's but you mentioned using the Tactical
Pilotage maps from that site so I'm wondering if I have missed something
with regards getting the images in that fornat.

There are 6 sheets from the index map [1] that I am looking to crop and
rectify, namely

SH-35 3
SH-35 4
SH-35 7
SH-35 8
SH-35 11
SH-35 12

They are all located at [2]

If you could steer me in the right direction I can sort out the
rectification and cropping of those sheets.

Thanks,
Dave

[1]
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/south_africa/txu-oclc-6565701-index.jpg
[2] http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/south_africa/#A

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> To: "Pierre Béland" <pierzenh at yahoo.fr>
> Cc: "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org>, Dave Corley <
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> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:46:33 +0800
> Subject: Re: [HOT] Looking for maps of Lesotho
> Hi Dave, Ok, we made the TPC's a WMS Layer you can use in JOSM (They are
> world wide coverage) We make the service free for Humanitarian Usage
>
> To access it in JOSM, ad a WMS Layer with service url of
>
> http://topo.disasternet.org/?
>
>  ... (including the "?" in the end)
>
> and choose the Worls TaticalPilotage Maps (Humanitarian Use Only) Option
> the click Ok
>
> You can then choose it as a backgound layer from the imagery Menu
>
> Hope it helps
>
>
>  *Jaakko, Nicaragua is also covered by the TPC's so it may be of some
> additional value to you as well*
>
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> Regards
>
> Mark Cupitt
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> Mark Cupitt
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> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
>> Dave,
>>
>> A good ressource for names is from
>> http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.htm
>>
>> You can download the country file for Lesotho.  In a spreadsheet, you can
>> filter to keep only the populated places (ie DSG=PPL).
>> Then select the following variables, add a place column and save as CSV
>> file.
>> - LAT
>> - LON
>> - FULL_NAME_RG (rename as name)
>> - add a colum place and give it the value hamlet
>>
>>  In JOSM, the opendata plugin will let read the csv file.  Using Bing
>> Imagery or other, one important step is to align the Place tag with the
>> villages. The TODO plugin can be used to pass the list of places one by one.
>>
>> Pierre
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>>  *De :* Markware Software Services <markwaresoftware at gmail.com>
>> *À :* Dave Corley <davecorley at gmail.com>
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>> *Envoyé le :* Vendredi 11 avril 2014 7h45
>> *Objet :* Re: [HOT] Looking for maps of Lesotho
>>
>> Dave, OK, we have some TPC Maps already done
>>
>> Please go to http://disasternet.org and double click on the Show Maps
>> Icon
>>
>> Then Click on Menu -> Crisis -> TPC and check the area. These maps were
>> downloaded from University of Texas Library so they should e in the Public
>> Domain and Ok to Trace
>>
>> If of value, I will make he layer available as a wms layer for you to
>> use. It wil take me a couple of days
>>
>> In the mean time, if you dig any other maps up and can trim georeference
>> them for me, I will make them available as well, I will give you an ftp
>> account where you can upload them. We need them as a GeoTiff EPSG:4326
>> preferred, with internal overviews, but NOT JPEG Compression (other
>> compression is ok)
>>
>> BTW, the first time you access these, it will take some time for the tile
>> cache to build, but after that, they should render reasonably quickly
>>
>> Please let me know
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Mark Cupitt
>>
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>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Dave Corley <davecorley at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>
>> Kate,
>>
>> Thanks, I will give them a try.
>>
>> Mark,
>>
>> Bounding box is -28.5242, -30.7017, 26.3177, 30.6299
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dave
>>
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