Thanks! I hadn't decided on the editor, but that's next. I'll look for the plugin in JOSM.
I'm using tiff because my PDF converter software [Nuance] offers it as an option, but not jpg or png. On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > newbies@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > > -- Jim Mays 845-657-2013
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