[OSM-talk] Better integration with OSM from MapKnitter.org balloon maps
Hello - I was just enjoying the add a TMS background feature in Potlatch 2 (feel free to tell me to go to a different mailing list) and I created a brief guide to inserting your DIY balloon mapping aerial imagery (grassroots mapping/public laboratory style) as a background: http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/editing-openstreetmap-balloon-maps (using data from ) It was kind of remarkable to me that the balloon maps seem to be well within the precision of the GPS used to make the existing map of Mestia, Georgia. In some areas, just based on how the GPS tracks wiggle on a straight road, it seemed that the balloon map is a pretty great resource for filling in detail (once it's well rectified, of course). See the screenshots in the page above. Anyhow, I'm the main developer for MapKnitter.org, which is where most grassroots balloon/kite mappers in our community are rectifying their imagery. I was thinking it'd be really nice to add a *Use your map to contribute to OpenStreetMap* link/button, which could deep-link into a Potlatch 2 page with the layer already set up. Is that kind of deep linking something anyone is interested in collaborating on? I can do all the integration from the MapKnitter side but don't have much experience with Potlatch code. I could also put this in as a Google Summer of Code idea but maybe it's too use-specific and actually too small of a project. Just wondering if this was interesting to folks. Jeff ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Better integration with OSM from MapKnitter.org balloon maps
Hi Jeff! I don't have much insight into the Potlatch2 code myself, but you can easily call Potlach2 with your own coordinates and TMS layers and I'm using that feature a lot. For example http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=48.3184lon=14.3121zoom=17tileurl=http://tms3857.kartenwerkstatt.at/tiles/1.0.0/OGD_LINZ_ORTHO_EPSG3857/$z/$x/$y.png?origin=nw puts you in the middle of Linz, Austria with an orthoimages background based on Austrian OGD data fetched from my server. Greetings to Mapknitter.org cu andreas 2012/3/9 Jeffrey Warren j...@publiclaboratory.org: Hello - I was just enjoying the add a TMS background feature in Potlatch 2 (feel free to tell me to go to a different mailing list) and I created a brief guide to inserting your DIY balloon mapping aerial imagery (grassroots mapping/public laboratory style) as a background: http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/editing-openstreetmap-balloon-maps (using data from ) It was kind of remarkable to me that the balloon maps seem to be well within the precision of the GPS used to make the existing map of Mestia, Georgia. In some areas, just based on how the GPS tracks wiggle on a straight road, it seemed that the balloon map is a pretty great resource for filling in detail (once it's well rectified, of course). See the screenshots in the page above. Anyhow, I'm the main developer for MapKnitter.org, which is where most grassroots balloon/kite mappers in our community are rectifying their imagery. I was thinking it'd be really nice to add a Use your map to contribute to OpenStreetMap link/button, which could deep-link into a Potlatch 2 page with the layer already set up. Is that kind of deep linking something anyone is interested in collaborating on? I can do all the integration from the MapKnitter side but don't have much experience with Potlatch code. I could also put this in as a Google Summer of Code idea but maybe it's too use-specific and actually too small of a project. Just wondering if this was interesting to folks. Jeff ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Better integration with OSM from MapKnitter.org balloon maps
Wow, how extremely useful! Thank you, Andreas. I implemented the deep link and you can see it on the following map, which I had originally linked to (it's lower down along the right sidebar): http://mapknitter.org/map/view/mestia I'll probably style it more like a button so that people see it. I also made it show up only for maps which are licensed Creative Commons Attribution or dedicated to the public domain. Issue tracker: https://github.com/jywarren/mapknitter/issues/96 Thanks again. I made it possible to use OSM as a reference layer for rectification so that it's possible to bootstrap by using existing ODBL/CC-BY-SA data to rectify balloon imagery. I also think there's a lot of promise for those simply taking photos out the window of their airplane flight with a good camera -- especially when the plane is banking :-) Jeff On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Andreas Trawoeger atra...@kartenwerkstatt.at wrote: Hi Jeff! I don't have much insight into the Potlatch2 code myself, but you can easily call Potlach2 with your own coordinates and TMS layers and I'm using that feature a lot. For example http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=48.3184lon=14.3121zoom=17tileurl=http://tms3857.kartenwerkstatt.at/tiles/1.0.0/OGD_LINZ_ORTHO_EPSG3857/$z/$x/$y.png?origin=nw puts you in the middle of Linz, Austria with an orthoimages background based on Austrian OGD data fetched from my server. Greetings to Mapknitter.org cu andreas 2012/3/9 Jeffrey Warren j...@publiclaboratory.org: Hello - I was just enjoying the add a TMS background feature in Potlatch 2 (feel free to tell me to go to a different mailing list) and I created a brief guide to inserting your DIY balloon mapping aerial imagery (grassroots mapping/public laboratory style) as a background: http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/editing-openstreetmap-balloon-maps (using data from ) It was kind of remarkable to me that the balloon maps seem to be well within the precision of the GPS used to make the existing map of Mestia, Georgia. In some areas, just based on how the GPS tracks wiggle on a straight road, it seemed that the balloon map is a pretty great resource for filling in detail (once it's well rectified, of course). See the screenshots in the page above. Anyhow, I'm the main developer for MapKnitter.org, which is where most grassroots balloon/kite mappers in our community are rectifying their imagery. I was thinking it'd be really nice to add a Use your map to contribute to OpenStreetMap link/button, which could deep-link into a Potlatch 2 page with the layer already set up. Is that kind of deep linking something anyone is interested in collaborating on? I can do all the integration from the MapKnitter side but don't have much experience with Potlatch code. I could also put this in as a Google Summer of Code idea but maybe it's too use-specific and actually too small of a project. Just wondering if this was interesting to folks. Jeff ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
