[OSM-talk] Exposure for OSM

[Richard Fairhurst]

Steve SoC wrote:

> [lots of good publicity stuff snipped - sorry to have to miss the
>  Summer School this year, but I hope Richard Dean's talk was good!]
> Does anyone have the skills to write a  data filter with shapefile  
> or dxf output?

I can write an export-to-Illustrator or EPS function, if it'd be useful...?

> The other point made by a  couple of people was about inputting from  
> out-of-copyright maps. As  far as I can see there isn't an easy way  
> to do that at present as  GPX input is the standard. Have I missed  
> something or else how does  anyone do this? I would like to input  
> things like rivers/streams in  the area I am mapping but don't feel  
> happy with the Landsat as  source for this, although I use that  
> through the applet for parks  and reservoirs. Anyone any suggestions?

A later version of Potlatch, the Flash editor I'm working on, will  
have the opportunity to use a tiled background in a different  
projection. In other words, rather than having Mercator-projected  
Landsat tiles, you'll be able to use OSGB New Popular Edition (or  
whatever). But this won't be in the first release.

To be honest it's (sadly) not a great concern at present as we don't  
really have many _orthorectified_ out-of-copyright maps.

cheers
Richard