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

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Christopher Schmidt wrote:
 
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.

Yes, ESRI style world file would be even better because it is so generally supported.  Perhaps it would be good to have a .prj file as well.  Anyway, I will not to be the one committing any code, I cannot program anything.  Well, I have had some success with video recorder sometimes.

-Jukka Rahkonen-