[HOT] Sharing imagery for a mapathon/task - simple alternative to TMS?

maning sambale emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 13:04:03 UTC 2016


You can lso use mapwarper http://mapwarper.net/

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 6:32 PM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> I can serve the imagery as TMS and then we can add that in the TM instructions.
> This assumes your piclayer images have proper georeferencing.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Nick Bristow <mail at nickbristow.co.uk> wrote:
>> First off, sorry if I've addressed this to the wrong list - please point me
>> in the right direction if so...
>>
>> I am working on a Missing Maps project with the BRC and MSF in London. We
>> recently had a mapathon organised around
>>
>> #1432 Missing Maps: DRC, Digitising Katanga field maps
>>
>>
>> The task is in two parts:
>> 1. Update the basemap from Bing
>> 2. Add village names from some MSF field notes (essentially hand drawn maps)
>>
>> My question is whether there is an easy way to share these images ( .pngs
>> roughly georeferenced with the PicLayers plugin in JOSM) with the group?
>>
>> In an ideal world, on the task page there would be some kind of link which
>> (possibly using remote control) would load the georeferenced image into a
>> mapper's JOSM in the right place. This is all new to me. I've been reading
>> about WMS/TMS servers which all seems like overkill. Is there a simple
>> solution possibly linking to images shared on a Google Drive? The pngs are
>> small files (a few hundred kb) but cover large areas (a few hundred km).
>>
>> If anyone has any experience of something similar, or could just point me in
>> the right direction it would be much appreciated!
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Nick Bristow
>> NickJOB
>>
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