[josm-dev] Adding your own imagery

[kristy van putten]

HI,
Thank you very much for everyones help, I was able to take simon advice and
convert the ecw file to jpeg with a worldfile and import it in using the
importimageplugin.  I did have to up the JOSM memory to do this, following
the instructions on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Mac
Thanks to Simon, Paul and Russ in replying to me!
Cheers


On 15 November 2012 11:18, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:

> > From: Russ Nelson [mailto:nelson at crynwr.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 6:32 PM
> > To: kristy van putten
> > Cc: josm-dev at openstreetmap.org
> > Subject: Re: [josm-dev] Adding your own imagery
> >
> > kristy van putten writes:
> >  > This is my first time on this list, so apologies if I am asking the
> > same  > question as someone else.  I have a team of GIS people
> > digitising in  > OpenStreetMap and we have found that there is no
> > imagery for a section of  > the area we really need to digitise.  I have
> > got imagery from a LiDAR  > survey that we (Australian Government) has
> > full IP rights to. The format of  > the imagery is ECW.
> >
> > It's been a day since you asked this question, and nobody has responded.
> > I suspect that's because of the image file format. I'm pretty sure that
> > it's a proprietary image format. According to this Wiki page:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECW_%28file_format%29 , there's an SDK
> > which is open source. It's likely to be possible to use that SDK to
> > convert the images into bigger files in a more standard file format. Or
> > ... use the SDK to add support to MapProxy so it can read the files and
> > re-encode in a more generally usable file format.
>
> gdal can read .ecw and through it mapserver, and through it mapproxy can
> serve it.
>
> It could also convert .ecw to geotiff or some other more common format.
>
> All the options for dealing with a large imagery involve setting up a
> server
> to host it. If you're able to grant the necessary permissions you might be
> able to get someone in the community to host it. I know Grant Slater hosts
> AGRI imagery for Australia.
>
>


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