[OSM-talk] Tah.openstreetmap.org/MapOf/ with georeferencing

[maning sambale]

>
>  Wouldn't it be nice to have an option to get maps with georeferencing info from
>  http://tah.openstreetmap.org/MapOf/?
>
>  I have seen a working example of this. With an OSM image capture utility
>  "OSM-Map" (http://alpo.hassinen.googlepages.com/osm-map)
>  user can not only capture a map from screen to image file but also store the
>  corresponding calibration file either in MapInfo .tab or OziExplorer .map
>  format.  Thus the captured images can be used in all GIS software or in
>  OziExplorer.  Some tweaking may be needed, for example gdal supports
>  georeferencing with .tab files  only for tiff images, and before using images
>  in OziExplorer CE they must first be converted to special Ozi image format
>  with another utility.  However, often a georeferenced image is much more
>  that just an image.

Or save as jpg with a jgw georeferencing file.

maning
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