On 5/8/15 11:01 AM, Jim Mays wrote: > Over the past decade, the city of New York has purchased land in the > area of their watershed under a filtration waver program. Most of this > land is in small [less than a 250 acres] parcels, and is open to > passive recreational activities such as hiking. They have published > maps of the individual parcels in PDF format & using a wide variety of > scales [to fit on a single 8 1/2 X 11 printout]. > [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/watershed_protection/recreation_maps.shtml] > > They're great short-ish walks & I would like to add them to OSM. > > However, aligning them presents a problem. "Field Papers" is one > solution, and I can convert the PDF into tiff, but is this the best > [or only] solution? Fugawi advertises itself as being able to convert > maps using three reference points, but migrating this into OSM is a > question - so, is anything like this available for OSM? what editor are you using? JOSM has a plugin named PicLayer which i have found useful when i need to align arbitrary imagery.
don't know what it does with tiffs; i usually use it with jpg or png images. richard -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search
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