Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Chris Browet
Hi, > > > The way they encode the QR code is public insofar that the source code > > to walking papers is FOSS. > > That isn't the patented technology. The algorithmn that is able to > calculated the orientation of the paper that is scanned and > re-orientate it (I have never scanned in a piece of

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Ciarán Mooney
Hi, > The way they encode the QR code is public insofar that the source code > to walking papers is FOSS. That isn't the patented technology. The algorithmn that is able to calculated the orientation of the paper that is scanned and re-orientate it (I have never scanned in a piece of paper exactl

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Chris Browet
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 17:10, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Chris Browet wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 16:27, Ciarán Mooney < > general.moo...@googlemail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> > Something that would be useful would be something akin to Walkin

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Chris Browet wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 16:27, Ciarán Mooney > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> > Something that would be useful would be something akin to Walking >> > Papers, but with the ability to carve an area up, and have multiple >> > maps of it (zoomed out an

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Chris Browet
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 16:27, Ciarán Mooney wrote: > Hi, > > > Something that would be useful would be something akin to Walking > > Papers, but with the ability to carve an area up, and have multiple > > maps of it (zoomed out and zoomed in). > > Even better if what you produce from Merkaartor w

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Ciarán Mooney
Hi, > Something that would be useful would be something akin to Walking > Papers, but with the ability to carve an area up, and have multiple > maps of it (zoomed out and zoomed in). Even better if what you produce from Merkaartor was compaitable with Walking Papers, or could implement the same t

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Chris Browet wrote: > Hi All, > > I plan to implement printing in Merkaartor 0.16. > > While thinking about it, I wondered whether there would be a need for > "mapping party ready" printouts? > By instance, the map could be printed with specific styles (e.g. for mi

[OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Chris Browet
Hi All, I plan to implement printing in Merkaartor 0.16. While thinking about it, I wondered whether there would be a need for "mapping party ready" printouts? By instance, the map could be printed with specific styles (e.g. for missing names) or grided for work distribution... If there is such