[OSM-talk] Video mapping in JOSM? Was I dreaming?

[Woll Newall]

My brain remembers reading something (I'm guessing in this list) about  
video mapping with JOSM, but I now can't seem to find anything about  
it in the JOSM help/JOSM-Dev list/OSM-talk list. There's a few wiki  
pages that (vaguely) mention video mapping but nothing detailed/ 
specific on how to do video in JOSM (except some idea to extract each  
frame of the video out into a JPEG file and use the photo-mapping  
technique, which seems too laborious to be useable).

Can anyone point me to the thing my brain thinks it read? I think  
there was mention of the software using a Java library that could read  
AVI files, that would require the use of a particular codec, so I'm  
guessing that it was JOSM and not Potlatch/Merkaartor.

In the absence of the info I was thinking of, can anyone suggest ways  
to utilise video in mapping?:
I have video (AVI) from a vehicle that is synchronised to a GPS track  
(GPX).
So, I was imagining that I could at least read in the track to an OSM  
editor and the video into a video player, and then look at the  
timestamps on the track and manually view the correct frame in the  
video in the video player (the video has timestamps on it). And  
hopefully then be able to easily move backwards/forwards along the  
track, whilst showing the timestamps. However, I can't seem to find a  
way of seeing the track timestamps in JOSM. I did find a way of  
clicking on individual track points to show the track timestamps in  
Merkaartor. I've never used JOSM before and only use Merkaartor 2  
times, so I could have easily missed the obvious!


Thanks,
Woll