Re: [talk-ph] Be careful in tracing from Bing Maps

2011-01-05 Thread Jim Morgan
Rally de Leon wrote, On Thursday, 06 January, 2011 03:08 PM: > JOSM Version 3767 (on Windows) looks like this: > No need for extra plug-in (it's built-in): Indeed. Got it now. They must have sneaked that in in the last week or two! Good stuff. Jim -- datalude: information security e:

Re: [talk-ph] Be careful in tracing from Bing Maps

2011-01-05 Thread Rally de Leon
JOSM Version 3767 (on Windows) looks like this: http://s232.photobucket.com/albums/ee315/ralleon888/?action=view¤t=JOSMVersion3767ImageryOffset.jpg No need for extra plug-in (it's built-in): http://s232.photobucket.com/albums/ee315/ralleon888/?action=view¤t=JOSMImageryOffsetPreference.jpg On Thu

Re: [talk-ph] Be careful in tracing from Bing Maps

2011-01-05 Thread Jim Morgan
Rally de Leon wrote, On Thursday, 06 January, 2011 12:04 PM: > the one i'm using on windows: JOSM (version 3767) > > While Bing Imagery & GPS traces are shown on the JOSM's background: > click on menu: Imagery --> New offset Don't seem to have that menu anywhere. I'm using the latest JOSM on Linu

Re: [talk-ph] Be careful in tracing from Bing Maps

2011-01-05 Thread Rally de Leon
Hi Jim, It is possible to do this on the "latest" JOSM. I was also surprised (and very happy) to discover this powerful new feature on JOSM. Because I used to manually enter 'numeric values' for offset corrections (Northings/Eastings), and It's a long trial & error process to get the best-fit; now

Re: [talk-ph] Be careful in tracing from Bing Maps

2011-01-05 Thread Jim Morgan
Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Thursday, 06 January, 2011 02:03 AM: > In Potlatch 2 and Merkaartor 0.17, the imagery can be moved by > pressing down the spacebar then dragging. I don't know how to do this > in JOSM but it also has a way to move the background image. Brilliant. I didn't know you cou

Re: [talk-ph] Be careful in tracing from Bing Maps

2011-01-05 Thread Rally de Leon
the one i'm using on windows: JOSM (version 3767) While Bing Imagery & GPS traces are shown on the JOSM's background: click on menu: Imagery --> New offset then a new window will pop-up "Adjust imagery offset" (with Easting / Northing correction & Bookmark name) while this pop-up is showing, -use

Re: [talk-ph] Be careful in tracing from Bing Maps

2011-01-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Here's an example of aligning Bing Maps imagery. This first image shows the default view of Bing Maps in Potlatch 2 and with GPS traces loaded (the yellow arrows show the offset needed to align the imagery): http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Bing_not_yet_aligned_in_GMA,_Cavite.jpg This next

[talk-ph] Be careful in tracing from Bing Maps

2011-01-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Please be careful in tracing from Bing Maps aerial imagery. It is known that some of the imagery is not aligned to the correct position. To show an example, please see this Bing maps screenshot: [1]. The image shows the boundary between two satellite imagery. The imagery on the top covers