[OSM-talk] scanned map -> osm format

[Graham Seaman]

I'm referring to Italian town maps of very doubtful copyright status 
(ie. can't trace any explicit copyright status anywhere). I intend to 
use them on my own site where I would be the sole responsible for any 
copyright issues, and don't want to merge them in with the OSM dataset 
to avoid possible pollution problems, so I was looking for some kind of 
free-standing tool to handle the conversion.

Graham

Barnett, Phillip wrote:
> I'm sure this email will set alarms off everywhere!!! :-)
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> You are referring to an out-of-copyright map, of course? We cannot use
> any copyrighted material in OSM.
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> But you knew that anyway, yes?
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
> [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Graham Seaman
> Sent: 12 February 2007 11:04
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [OSM-talk] scanned map -> osm format
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> Hi,
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> I'm sure this must be an FAQ but I can't find the answer anywhere: is
> there any automated way to convert a scanned map to osm format? Or, if
> it's not possible to fully automate, are there any tools for Linux which
> will allow me to trace over a scanned map and save the output in osm
> format? (I have a relatively clean map with just road outlines, and a
> scattering of known gpx points to anchor it physically)
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> Many thanks
> Graham
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