Is that the best that you can get in Potlatch too - if so it is clearly useless! If you are happy that the digitalised paper map is in the public domain and free of any copyright constraints then one way of calibrating it might be to use GPS Utility http://www.gpsu.co.uk/ (freeware version has limited functionality but might be enough for an experiment) and saving as a gpx. But I am not enough of a cartographer to know whether there would be projection issues beyond those that can be customised in GPS Utility yhat would affect rectification in OSM. Mike Harris
_____ From: Arlindo Pereira [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 13 January 2009 13:46 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Load images under map on JOSM or other editor That's the best it goes: http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/5641/ipuei5.png I was thinking in somehow locking the position with the digitalized paper map - ftp://geoftp.ibge.gov.br/MME2007/CE/IPU.pdf - maybe using the roads or the coordinates. I don't know if gpsTrackmaker would be an option, since I run Linux, but I'll take a look if it runs on Wine. Thanks. [] On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:42, Mike Harris <[email protected]> wrote: I use Potlatch (rather than JOSM) and the Yahoo mapping (if it exists for your area) to do this sort of thing prior to backing up with more detail from GPS when I can. It seems to me that the Yahoo layer in Potlatch is clearer, better registered and available at higher zoom levels (at least in the UK) than the version in JOSM (that also requires a couple of plugins and fiddling with Firefox). Mike Harris _____ From: Arlindo Pereira [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 13 January 2009 05:42 To: [email protected] Subject: [OSM-newbies] Load images under map on JOSM or other editor Hi, is it possible to load a image layer under the map on JOSM or another editor? I'd like to map the main elements of a little town where my parents have been born and raised, but I can't go there right now (so no GPS) and all satellites images are too blurry. I got a map from the government, in public license, and I'd like to map over it. It has informations of latitude of longitude. So, is it possible? Thanks in advance -- Arlindo Saraiva Pereira Jr. Pesquisador e Desenvolvedor de Soluções em Software Livre - Circo Voador Digital - circodigital.org.br Bacharelando em Sistemas de Informação - UNIRIO - uniriotec.br Profissional: [email protected] Acadêmico: [email protected] Geral: [email protected] Tel.: +5521 92504072 Jabber/Google Talk: [email protected] SIP: [email protected] Skype: nighto_sumomo Fring: arlindopereira Linux User #363664 Chave Pública: B828E502 _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies -- Arlindo Saraiva Pereira Jr. Pesquisador e Desenvolvedor de Soluções em Software Livre - Circo Voador Digital - circodigital.org.br Bacharelando em Sistemas de Informação - UNIRIO - uniriotec.br Profissional: [email protected] Acadêmico: [email protected] Geral: [email protected] Tel.: +5521 92504072 Jabber/Google Talk: [email protected] SIP: [email protected] Skype: nighto_sumomo Fring: arlindopereira Linux User #363664 Chave Pública: B828E502
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