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

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 09:24:44AM +0800, maning sambale wrote:
> >
> >  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.

Code is in SVN. If you commit something, let me know, and I'll svn up.
If you write a patch and can't commit, email the dev list the patch,
then let me know (I skim, but tend to notice 'tah' in subjects), and I'll 
review it.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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