OK, and as I've been dying to ask this question somewhere, I'm going to flood
the mailing list with an impossible two posts in the space of an hour.
I'm assuming the maps on Wikipedia are open source. I used to live in Hong Kong
and here's an example from there which I'm particularly keen to use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Discovery_bay_map.svg
The license says "Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License"."
OK well assuming I can use this, I can't really figure out how to do it. I
thought there might be a way to load it into JOSM as a background, and then
trace it. However it seems I need a Mapping Server to do this. I toyed with the
idea of setting up my own mapping server, but that seemed like trying to crack
a nut with a sledgehammer, so I thought I'd ask the group. What's the best way
to go about this? Assuming that the map is OK to use of course.
Jim
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