[OSM-newbies] Mapping a Technology Institute campus

[Chris Hunter]

> Thank you Chris for the information.I have the following queries.

> Where do I get the aerial imagery?

Yahoo, landsat, or SRTM should have imagery for your area.  Check the
wiki page for India and/or your district to see if there are any
better sources.

> Do we need to scan the maps printed with the points marked? I thought GPS points could be enough to use with JOSM..?

Scanning the walking papers isn't strictly necessary, but having them
open in JOSM makes it easier to tell what track belongs to what map
feature.

> I went to http://walking-papers.org   But since this is a campus, I dont find any printable data there. What should be wrong?

Is there anything in the map right now?  Can you provide a permalink?

> Im not sure about the plugins for JOSM and new to them. How do I identify those required for this purpose?

There's a summary of most of the plugins linked off of the JOSM wiki page.

> What is the necessity for scanning the walking papers?

See above.

> How do I upload the trace file?

Login to your account from the OSM main screen and click on "GPS
Traces" button, then "upload a trace".

> I just need to mark the waypoints GPX into the data downloaded from OSM?

Yes.  You should have a minimum of four layers open in JOSM:
1. Data later
2. Downloaded GPS data
3. Waypoints GPX file
4. Reference imagery (either aerial or walking papers)

There are several howto videos on the wiki and youtube on how to edit
with JOSM that may be helpful.

DiverCTH (Chris)

On 9/19/09, Sajjad Anwar <sajjadkm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
> We are planning a micro mapping party to map the National Institute of
> Technology, Calicut, Kerala, India. The campus and the surroundings comes to
> an approximate 300-350 Acres. We are trying to arrange the GPS devices. We
> plan to use JOSM editor.
>
> What should be the steps to map the region, buildings, paths, roads etc?
> How do we collect the data?
>
>
> Regards.
> --
> Sajjad Anwar
> http://geohackers.in
> http://fsugcalicut.org
> geohackers.in at gmail.com
> +91 9995 19 13 12
>

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