Dear mark, Thanks! I encourage you to donate your own topo collections so that everyone can benefit.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Mark Cupitt <markcup...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maning, that is a wonderful site, I have been recifying these maps using a > package called OziExplorer, but it has not worked well at all, we were using > them for airbourne navigation as an additional option on a handheld Win PDA > This is a much better option and a GeoTiff can be downloaded > > Thanks for sharing > > Mark C > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:24 AM, maning sambale <emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Sharing with you a test site I am currently working on called Ph >> MapWarper: >> >> http://ec2-50-17-155-14.compute-1.amazonaws.com/ >> >> It is free and open access online catalog of Philippine paper maps. >> Where you can find maps and other imagery, upload, and rectify against >> a real map. You can then download and use the rectified map in your >> mapping applications. >> >> This is a fork of Tim Waters map warper/rectifier [0]. For video >> tutorial on how to use the app, check out NYPL's video [1 and 2]. >> >> At the moment, we have uploaded several hundreds of 1950's topo maps >> ready for rectification. In the future, I see this as an additional >> resource for OSM. Feel free to play around, this is still in beta and >> hosted on Amazon EC2 Micro instance (maybe slow at times). >> >> Enjoy! >> >> >> [0] https://github.com/maning/mapwarper >> [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO9cGOqrhYo >> [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8ms_eBU8MQ >> -- >> cheers, >> maning >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden >> wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ >> blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk-ph mailing list >> talk-ph@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > > -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
