[OSM-talk] How to photo fold-out maps

[Richard Fairhurst]

Lester Caine wrote:

> For this map
> http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/index.php?page=British+Isles
> I ended up scanning each section and then tidying things up with  
> paintshoppro.

Yes, I'm taking that approach with the NPE scans at the moment - scan  
"as is", then manually straighten. I've written a bit of Perl to do  
this, using the fabulous Imager library:

http://search.cpan.org/src/TONYC/Imager-0.62/samples/quad_to_square.pl

but I believe you can also do it with gdal should you so desire.

cheers
Richard