[OSM-talk] georeferencing OSM

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2011/3/7 Łukasz Stelmach <stlman at poczta.fm>:
> Hello.
>
> This has been discussed[1] some time ago but the answer is somehow
> unclear to me. I understand that EPSG:900913 is (may be?) a crappy
> projection[2]. However, I still need a map of Poland at zoom 6-8 warped
> to EPSG2180. How to use geotifcp (how to prepare metadata) to embed
> appropriate information in an image exported from OpenStreetmap?


you have to provide an additional text file with the parameters for
your tif (tfw, world file). The file is described e.g. in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_file

cheers,
Martin