[OSM-newbies] my town can provide me with much better photos than yahoo

[Jason Cunningham]

Your images probably need 'rectifying' or warping, to give accurate results
when traced over.
There is a website that will do this for you.
http://warper.geothings.net/

Once again there is a learning curve invovled. You upload an image, select
points on the image and the corresponding osm map. If you can provide
accurate latitude longitude for the locations you've indicated then you can
edit them your self. When you have several points you ask the website to
'recitify' or warp the image. The website will then host the rectified image
which can be viewed as a layer in josm.
If the images are too large you might have to split them into several
smaller images.

To view the hosted image in josm you will have to download the wms plugin
for josm

It will all make sense in the end

jason
user:jamicu

2009/10/19 Tim Litwiller <tim at litwiller.net>

> Thanks for telling me to try again.  I played with it till 2am last
> night and it does do what I need with respect to the picture layer.
> It has a steeper learning curve but it looks like it may also have more
> features that I'll want to use.
>
>
>
>
> On 10/18/2009 10:17 PM, Andrew Errington wrote:
> > On Mon, October 19, 2009 11:43, Timothy C Litwiller wrote:
> >
> >> No, I'm not sure I just haven't figured out how JOSM works yet. It sure
> >> wasn't intuitive to me from the start so I haven't tried again.
> >>
> > Well, to be honest, my initial reaction to JOSM was similar.  However, I
> > prefer JOSM, mostly because I feel 'connected' to the data because the
> > program is running locally.
> >
> > It's too bad that your first impression put you off, and I appreciate you
> > have a free choice in the matter, but I'd recommend you persevere.
>  Having
> > said that, I don't know for sure that JOSM + PicLayer will do what you
> > want, but you won't know until you try.
> >
> > My JOSM editing sessions go like this:
> >
> > 1) Start JOSM
> > 2) Download area of interest
> > 3) Open GPX file from recent trip
> > 4) Add points for POIs and ways
> > 5) Add tags to points and ways
> > 6) Upload
> >
> > I have to say that switching between modes (e.g adding nodes, or
> selecting
> > nodes) still trips me up occasionally.  Also I *hate* having to use the
> > right button to drag the map around (someone please tell me there's an
> > easier way), but that aside, I have found JOSM to be simple but powerful.
> >
> > Note that steps 3 4 and 5 above can be done offline, so you don't need to
> > be connected to the internet while you are working.
> >
> > For step 2 I have my main areas of interest stored as bookmarks in JOSM,
> > so I don't have to select the download area by drawing a box over the
> > slippy map.
> >
> > There is a new JOSM step-by-step guide on the wiki:
> >
> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Guide
> >
> > I followed a beginner's guide like that one, which was tedious as I
> really
> > wanted to just get on and map stuff, but it was time well spent.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
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