[HOT] Field papers grids for OSMand

[Pete Masters]

Nice solution. I was struggling using opendata for geojsons. I'll update
the field papers wiki section...

Pete

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Claire,
>
> I had no luck importing geojson files into JOSM, I have the latest version
> of JOSM and the plugins, including the OpenData Plugin.
>
> However, I just looked and there is a plugin that makes use of the
> opendata plugin called:
>
> josm-geojson
>
> And it seems to work great. No idea how long it has been there, but there
> it is :)
>
> yay!
>
> Cheers,
> blake
>
>
> On 3/24/2016 2:38 PM, Claire Halleux wrote:
>
>> Hi Rupert,
>>
>> The technique I was using during my last field trips was :
>> - download the geojson file,
>> - open it in JOSM,
>> - write the letters and numbers of reference (of your field papers)
>> manually within the rectangles,
>> - save your layer as gpx file,
>> - upload it into your osmand folder.
>> And it was actually working very well here.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Claire
>>
>> ps: In JOSM it will require the open data plugin.
>>
>> Claire Halleux
>> +243 81 611 6998 (Kinshasa, DRC)
>> OpenStreetMap RDC
>> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
>>
>> https://www.facebook.com/OpenStreetMap.RDC
>> http://www.hotosm.org/
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com
>> <mailto:bgirardot at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Rupert,
>>
>>     I can not say for sure, but maybe you have to download the JSON and
>>     then convert that to a shapefile.
>>
>>     JOSM can't open geojson files so you would need to use a website like:
>>
>>     http://geojson.io/
>>
>>     To convert the json file to shp.
>>
>>     That is my guess at least from reading the directions, it sounds
>>     like maybe the previous version of the field papers website
>>     supported shp files but the current version uses geojson instead.
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     blake
>>
>>     On 3/24/2016 1:20 PM, Rupert Allan wrote:
>>
>>         Hi all!
>>
>>         I'm wanting to be sure some wiki stuff is working before a field
>>         trip to
>>         Sierra Leone.
>>
>>         It is at this wiki:
>>
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Field_Papers#How_to_use_with_OsmAnd
>>
>>
>>         When I try to follow this,
>>         http://fieldpapers.org/atlases/g9zo56e5#
>>
>>         ... the instructions aren't working with Field papers because I
>>         can't
>>         download the shape file. Can anybody tell me how to find it, so
>>         I can
>>         make a grid to use in OSMand in the field?
>>         Thanks!
>>
>>
>>         Rupert
>>
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