[talk-au] JOSM Scanaerial plugin on NSW LPI layers

[Nev Wedding]

That’s great news, thanks
Nev

> On 19 Jan 2016, at 2:23 PM, Ross <info at 4x4falcon.com> wrote:
> 
> scanaerial or tracer2 plugins both work with the Reserves WMS layer.
> 
> As to setting it up on OSX I'd suggest it's similar to the linux setup as the operating systems are similar, just need to put the config file in the appropriate place and have python installed.
> 
> Cheers
> Ross
> 
> 
> On 19/01/16 13:44, Nev Wedding wrote:
>> Should the JOSM Scanaerial plugin be able to scan the LPI NSW Administrative Boundaries NPWS Reserve WMS layer and others.
>> I would like to zoom in to a section and use the plugin as an initial pass instead of manually mouse clicking around the long and winding boundary and then refine the result before tagging and uploading.
>> 
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/Scanaerial	
>> I am using a mac OS X and there are no instructions for that install so I may not have it set up correctly yet, so first up before proceeding further, I would like to know if it will help anyway.
>> 
>> I am unfamiliar with tracing shapes other than tediously wandering around the boundaries one click at a time.
>> 
>> I played around with Gimp and Inkscape but found that to be quite a task too and wasn’t sure if I could use the output in Josm in anyway.
>> 
>> How do you manage such tasks? Are their special mouse tools available?
>> 
>> Is what I am trying to do essentially considered to be part of an import and/or the current LPI layers unsuitable for the tracing process.
>> 
>> Some links to where to find more info on this topic would be appreciated.
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