Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-26 Thread Gregory
On 21 September 2011 14:18, John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com wrote: And I'd be worried about being brought to the attention of the authorities for being seen pointing lasers at infrastructural things such as electricity pylons --- do people tend to complain about having their buildings etc

Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: 90% of my mapping is in such areas - gps, josm and repeated visits to the area are needed. Camera and laser range finder are a plus. JOSM is absolutely not needed for GPS surveying - you can use it if you like, but I do pretty much all my mapping in Potlatch with GPS

Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-21 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 02:15 -0700, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: 90% of my mapping is in such areas - gps, josm and repeated visits to the area are needed. Camera and laser range finder are a plus. JOSM is absolutely not needed for GPS surveying - you can use it if

Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-21 Thread John Sturdy
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:33 AM, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 10:49 +0200, Erik Johansson wrote: 90% of my mapping is in such areas - gps, josm and repeated visits to the area are needed. Camera and laser range finder are a plus. Do you actually use

Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2011/9/21 kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com: it is dead easy - just point it at the target and click - it gives the distance. At over 150 metres, a tripod helps, unless you have very steady hands. It is useful for getting the exact dimensions of buildings or golf greens. These can then

Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-21 Thread Mike N
On 9/21/2011 9:18 AM, John Sturdy wrote: And I'd be worried about being brought to the attention of the authorities for being seen pointing lasers at infrastructural things such as electricity pylons --- do people tend to complain about having their buildings etc visibly surveyed? I have

Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-21 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 14:18 +0100, John Sturdy wrote: it is dead easy - just point it at the target and click - it gives the distance. So do you get the distance from two known points, and triangulate by distance, or do you use distance and bearing from one known point, or something

Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-21 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 15:35 +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2011/9/21 kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com: it is dead easy - just point it at the target and click - it gives the distance. At over 150 metres, a tripod helps, unless you have very steady hands. It is useful for getting

Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-20 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 10:49 +0200, Erik Johansson wrote: 90% of my mapping is in such areas - gps, josm and repeated visits to the area are needed. Camera and laser range finder are a plus. Do you actually use an laser range finder, isn't that a bit hard to use? I would really like to

Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-18 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 05:05 -0700, Douglas Musaazi wrote: We were able to use the walking papers and the g.p.s unit that enabled us to have better accuracy, using potlatch without the satellite imagery was like working while blind folded and we managed to make the edits. We never used

[OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-15 Thread Douglas Musaazi
Hi..? On Saturday 10th September 2011, we held a mapping day event at Uganda Christian University Mukono in Uganda, where we spread the idea of mapping and updating the Open Street World map as part of the mapping Uganda Initiative at pamoya (http://www.pamoya.com/node/13275), however, the

Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-15 Thread Tom Hughes
On 15/09/11 13:05, Douglas Musaazi wrote: On Saturday 10th September 2011, we held a mapping day event at Uganda Christian University Mukono in Uganda, where we spread the idea of mapping and updating the Open Street World map as part of the mapping Uganda Initiative at pamoya

Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2011/9/15 Douglas Musaazi douglasmusa...@yahoo.com: On Saturday 10th September 2011, we held a mapping day event at Uganda Christian University Mukono in Uganda, where we spread the idea of mapping and updating the Open Street World map as part of the mapping Uganda Initiative at pamoya

Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-15 Thread Gregory
On 15 September 2011 13:37, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 15/09/11 13:05, Douglas Musaazi wrote: On Saturday 10th September 2011, we held a mapping day event at Uganda Christian University Mukono in Uganda, where we spread the idea of mapping and updating the Open Street World map as