[talk-ph] test site for ph mapwarper

[maning sambale]

Dear mark,

Thanks!  I encourage you to donate your own topo collections so that
everyone can benefit.

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Mark Cupitt <markcupitt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maning, that is a wonderful site, I have been recifying these maps using a
> package called OziExplorer, but it has not worked well at all, we were using
> them for airbourne navigation as an additional option on a handheld Win PDA
> This is a much better option and a GeoTiff can be downloaded
>
> Thanks for sharing
>
> Mark C
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:24 AM, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Sharing with you a test site I am currently working on called Ph
>> MapWarper:
>>
>> http://ec2-50-17-155-14.compute-1.amazonaws.com/
>>
>> It is free and open access online catalog of Philippine paper maps.
>> Where you can find maps and other imagery, upload, and rectify against
>> a real map. You can then download and use the rectified map in your
>> mapping applications.
>>
>> This is a fork of Tim Waters map warper/rectifier [0].  For video
>> tutorial on how to use the app, check out NYPL's video [1 and 2].
>>
>> At the moment, we have uploaded several hundreds of 1950's topo maps
>> ready for rectification.  In the future, I see this as an additional
>> resource for OSM.  Feel free to play around, this is still in beta and
>> hosted on Amazon EC2 Micro instance (maybe slow  at times).
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
>>
>> [0] https://github.com/maning/mapwarper
>> [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO9cGOqrhYo
>> [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8ms_eBU8MQ
>> --
>> cheers,
>> maning
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maning
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