[OSM-talk] Map data - WGS84 to OSGB36 transformation

[Andy Armstrong]

On 18 Jul 2006, at 12:56, Andy Robinson wrote:

> hm, now that would be a handy tool as part of JOSM. To select the  
> output
> datum so that you can render maps (eg osmarender) in your local datum.
>
> I also spotted JavaScript code written by Roger Muggleton at his
> http://www.carabus.co.uk/ site.
>
> JavaScript I can understand, just have no experience with the  
> others but
> what I'm interested in is being able to improve on the current  
> simplified
> projection that osmarender uses by converting the xml before it's  
> used by
> it.
>
> Of course if gpsbabel could read the osm xml file and convert that,  
> that
> would be pretty cool too. It would have to leave all the tags but  
> could be a
> way to look at filtering the data. Just food for thought.

It'd be pretty easy to port either the C or Java version of my code  
to JS. Want it?

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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net