[OSM-talk] JOSM landsat plugin - aligning Landsat with OSM data

[Andy Robinson]

Etienne wrote:
>Sent: 26 October 2006 10:49 AM
>To: David Earl
>Cc: OSM
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM landsat plugin - aligning Landsat with OSM
>data
>
>On 10/26/06, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
>
>	I think it depends on the nature of the error. In the assumption
that
>over a
>	local area, is it sufficient just to translate it, or does it need
>either a
>	slight rotation or a distortion to a quadrilateral?
>
>	Assuming a translation is all that is needed, I think the most
>convenient
>	would be a drag (select the layer and the new tool, press and drag
>the
>	image - you'd need to see it drag so you can align it correctly).
>
>
>And, for really precise positioning, use of the cursor keys to nudge the
>image by very small increments.
>
>Etienne


Yes, personally I don't think any rotation is required, just the ability to
nudge a few pixels horizontally and vertically using cursor or other keys.
At most we seem only to need to move it by about 50m or so maximum (whatever
that converts to pixels)

Cheers

Andy

>
>
>
>
>	If that's
>	hard to implement, the ability to define a from point and a to point
>and
>	then have the image move by the vector between the two would do the
>job.
>
>	David
>
>	> -----Original Message-----
>	> From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
>	> [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org]On Behalf Of Nick Whitelegg
>	> Sent: 26 October 2006 10:10
>	> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>	> Subject: [OSM-talk] JOSM landsat plugin - aligning Landsat with
OSM
>data
>	>
>	>
>	> I thought I sent this last night, but it hasn't appeared on the
>list, so
>	> there must have been a problem somewhere.
>	>
>	> Anyway, a lot of people have requested an extension to the Landsat
>plugin
>	> where you can align the Landsat with OSM data.
>	> I'd like to do this in the most usable way... so, do people have
>any UI
>	> suggestions I can follow?
>	>
>	> Thanks,
>	> Nick
>	>
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