Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone openly georeferencing maps and pictures in time?

2014-08-03 Thread Tim Lund
First I'd like to say a big thank you to Pat, Eli & Bob for your responses here, and also to Jeff who I originally emailed, and suggested I email this list. Problems of this type clearly are technically soluble, and some, e.g in the military context, which I'd not been thinking about, have been so

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone openly georeferencing maps and pictures in time?

2014-08-01 Thread Pat Tressel
Eli -- I've added one comment and link to Pat's excellent response. > Except I forgot to include any of the HOT links (sorry, could not resist). Here's the HOT mailing list: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot Here's a "why" doc for OpenAerialMap (and a cautionary tale -- always spell-c

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone openly georeferencing maps and pictures in time?

2014-08-01 Thread Eli Adam
I've added one comment and link to Pat's excellent response. On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Pat Tressel wrote: > Tim -- > >> This is a project idea which seems obvious to me, and one which would so >> obviously benefit from OSGeo involvement, that I feel someone on this list >> will know very q

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone openly georeferencing maps and pictures in time?

2014-08-01 Thread Pat Tressel
Tim -- This is a project idea which seems obvious to me, and one which would so > obviously benefit from OSGeo involvement, that I feel someone on this list > will know very quickly if anyone is working on it in an open data way. It > comes from thinking about the warping which needs to be done t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone openly georeferencing maps and pictures in time?

2014-08-01 Thread Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
On 8/1/14 11:48 AM, Tim Lund wrote: Thanks Bob. Not sure what you mean by auto-populate - sounds as if humans would not be involved. I was thinking of an interface in which a user clicks a point on a photo to be geotagged and then a point on a map where the user knows the item in the photo is l

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone openly georeferencing maps and pictures in time?

2014-08-01 Thread Tim Lund
Thanks Bob. Not sure what you mean by auto-populate - sounds as if humans would not be involved. I was thinking of an interface in which a user clicks a point on a photo to be geotagged and then a point on a map where the user knows the item in the photo is located. As in QGIS georeferencing. Th

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone openly georeferencing maps and pictures in time?

2014-08-01 Thread Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
On 8/1/14 9:18 AM, Tim Lund wrote: Hi This is a project idea which seems obvious to me, and one which would so obviously benefit from OSGeo involvement, that I feel someone on this list will know very quickly if anyone is working on it in an open data way. It comes from thinking about the warp

[OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone openly georeferencing maps and pictures in time?

2014-08-01 Thread Tim Lund
Hi This is a project idea which seems obvious to me, and one which would so obviously benefit from OSGeo involvement, that I feel someone on this list will know very quickly if anyone is working on it in an open data way. It comes from thinking about the warping which needs to be done to get from