[OSM-newbies] Load images under map on JOSM or other editor

[Mike Harris]

Is that the best that you can get in Potlatch too - if so it is clearly
useless!
 
If you are happy that the digitalised paper map is in the public domain and
free of any copyright constraints then one way of calibrating it might be to
use GPS Utility
 
http://www.gpsu.co.uk/
 
(freeware version has limited functionality but might be enough for an
experiment)
 
and saving as a gpx. But I am not enough of a cartographer to know whether
there would be projection issues beyond those that can be customised in GPS
Utility yhat would affect rectification in OSM.
 
Mike Harris
 


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From: Arlindo Pereira [mailto:nighto at nighto.net] 
Sent: 13 January 2009 13:46
To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Load images under map on JOSM or other editor


That's the best it goes: http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/5641/ipuei5.png

I was thinking in somehow locking the position with the digitalized paper
map - ftp://geoftp.ibge.gov.br/MME2007/CE/IPU.pdf - maybe using the roads or
the coordinates.

I don't know if gpsTrackmaker would be an option, since I run Linux, but
I'll take a look if it runs on Wine.

Thanks.

[]


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:42, Mike Harris <mikh43 at googlemail.com> wrote:


I use Potlatch (rather than JOSM) and the Yahoo mapping (if it exists for
your area) to do this sort of thing prior to backing up with more detail
from GPS when I can.
 
It seems to me that the Yahoo layer in Potlatch is clearer, better
registered and available at higher zoom levels (at least in the UK) than the
version in JOSM (that also requires a couple of plugins and fiddling with
Firefox).
 
Mike Harris
 


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From: Arlindo Pereira [mailto:nighto at nighto.net] 
Sent: 13 January 2009 05:42
To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
Subject: [OSM-newbies] Load images under map on JOSM or other editor


Hi, is it possible to load a image layer under the map on JOSM or another
editor? I'd like to map the main elements of a little town where my parents
have been born and raised, but I can't go there right now (so no GPS) and
all satellites images are too blurry. I got a map from the government, in
public license, and I'd like to map over it. It has informations of latitude
of longitude. So, is it possible?

Thanks in advance

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