[OSM-talk] Exposure for OSM

[Collinson Mike]

At 05:21 AM 11/09/2006, Steve Chilton wrote:
>  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? I have 
> ability to scan maps or use existing scanes as backdrops to trace 
> from in CorelDraw or Inkscape or something but don't know how to 
> get resulting linework into OSM.

I do have a very "prototype" application going where I can import an 
image in a number of formats, geo-reference it, overlay GPX and 
certain OSM data and then digitise OSM nodes (just nodes at 
present).  I'm currently working finishing the node digitiser and on 
a "nudge" facility so that I can re-align landsat data with GPX data.

It does seem to me, though, that image backdrop import in JOSM would 
be the way to go as all the other tools are there.

Mike
Oz