[Talk-GB] Mapping from a survey
David Woolley
forums at david-woolley.me.uk
Fri May 13 10:11:15 UTC 2022
On 13/05/2022 10:51, Mark Goodge wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a good way to go about that? I've never mapped from a
> survey before, and I don't really know what the process is. Are there
> apps for a phone which I can use to trace lines that I can then transfer
> to OSM later?
Mapping from a survey is actually the gold standard way of mapping, and
the ability of the general public to do it was what made OSM possible!
Any good dedicated satellite navigator should be able to log tracks.
Considering Android, I use OSMTracker, for raw track collection, Keypad
Mapper for house numbers (although I've not used it in a while, and it
comes up with a warning about being built for an old Android), and
Vespucci as a full function editor. The first can directly upload
tracks, although I generally save to a local file. I've never looked
into track support on Vespucci.
I use JOSM as the main editor, and it can read tracks from local files
or from the server and use them as a background for mapping. You should
not upload the raw track to form the feature, but rather simplify it and
smooth it based on what your eyes told you.
You can of course use other methods, like pacing or laser range finding
distances, triangulation, measuring photographs, etc.
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