[talk-ph] test site for ph mapwarper

[Mark Cupitt]

Hi Maning, all the maps I have are already up there, but rest assured, if I
get anything useful, I will certainly put them up there. It is a great tool

Regards

Mark

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:42 PM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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> cheers,
> maning
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