[Talk-in] Mapping an area from a satellite view

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Thursday 30 April 2009 14:11:48 Guillaume Audirac wrote:
> I would like to map areas (like the Kabini lake) from the Yahoo! Aerial
> Imagery, but without sketching them manually (as I can do in Potlatch). I
> was thinking using Gimp on the satellite view to extract an outline and to
> import it as a way, somehow in Potlatch or JOSM. Then rescaling and
> shifting to the right place would be easy.

I think JOSM has something called lake walker which does this - never used it 
though
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