[OSM-newbies] Mapping a Technology Institute campus

[Sajjad Anwar]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Chris Hunter <chunter952 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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?
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=11.322174&lon=75.934829&zoom=18

>
> > 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.
>
> I would check them. Thank you.

>
> 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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Sajjad Anwar
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http://fsugcalicut.org
geohackers.in at gmail.com
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