Assuming it's OK to use the map:
1. Use mapwarper http://wrp.geothings.net/
rectify the map via mapwarper's interface, and grab the wms link
which you can paste to josm wms plugin. You now have a new wms for
your map.
Mapwarper wms is OK if you have reliable internet connection (which
I don't have so I use option 2)
2. Download the warped image (rectified) from mapwarper, Then setup a
local webmapserver using mapserver http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ and
fetch the image using wms plugin of JOSM (you can easily do this since
you're a linuz geek ;))
cheers,
maning
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Jim Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, and as I've been dying to ask this question somewhere, I'm going to flood
the mailing list with an impossible two posts in the space of an hour.
I'm assuming the maps on Wikipedia are open source. I used to live in Hong
Kong and here's an example from there which I'm particularly keen to use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Discovery_bay_map.svg
The license says Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify
this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of
the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation
License.
OK well assuming I can use this, I can't really figure out how to do it. I
thought there might be a way to load it into JOSM as a background, and then
trace it. However it seems I need a Mapping Server to do this. I toyed with
the idea of setting up my own mapping server, but that seemed like trying to
crack a nut with a sledgehammer, so I thought I'd ask the group. What's the
best way to go about this? Assuming that the map is OK to use of course.
Jim
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