On 22 April 2010 12:36, Nic Roets wrote:
> If you are on a slow connection and you want to quickly zoom in with a
> slippy map, there is a trick : Double click on the location (the more
> accurate, the better). This will center the map on that location. Then
> select a high zoom level with the ver
> 2) OSM Watch List - new kid on the block. Day, Week and 'All' changes.
> Supports RSS. Large areas support only via RSS feed.
> http://matt.dev.openstreetmap.org/owl_viewer/
That interesting. Here's 3 shortcuts that is centered on SA:
http://matt.dev.openstreetmap.org/owl_viewer/weeklymap?zoom=6
OSM ZA,
It is great to see new mappers popping up every few days... and the
small towns appearing on the map.
Here are 2 useful tools for keeping an eye on particular areas.
1) itoworld's OSM mapper - The original. Graphically very rich and has
some nifty features. Supports RSS. Limited area siz
If I get a chance, I'll have a go at re-projecting and turning into a slippymap.
Also happy to help someone else do this.
Basic steps:
1) Crop images to borders
2) Add control points via gdal_translate (jpg -> geotiff)
3) gdal_warp to EPSG:900913 (reproject)
4) tile... using patched gdal2tiles
Wow, these things are just getting cheaper and cheaper.
http://www.game.co.za/portal/game2009/UserFiles/SysDocs/bb_content_countryleaflets/rsa/leaflet-rsa-2010-04-22-27.gif
"Jailbreaking" this Mio is extremely simple : It has the bundled maps
and app on internal flash. It also has an SD card slot
I had a look at the maps. It is very interesting to see them and the
copyright on them has expired. Unfortunately the scale is rather small,
1:250 000. It would be useful to trace some rivers, but it would not be
very accurate. I will try to find some old higher resolution maps from
the Departm
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