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

[Andy Robinson]

Andy Armstrong [mailto:andy at hexten.net] wrote:
>Sent: 18 July 2006 13:18
>To: Andy Robinson
>Cc: 'Immanuel Scholz'; 'Talk Openstreetmap'
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Map data - WGS84 to OSGB36 transformation
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>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?

That would be cool Andy, thanks

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk


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