Simon Hewison wrote: >Sent: 26 February 2010 10:55 AM >To: talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] will walkingpapers printed on black and white work? > >On 26/02/2010 08:25, maning sambale wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am using walking-papers printed on black& white laser printing but >> I didn't tried uploading the scans (I don't have a scanner). I simply >> used the map as reference for my mapping. >> >> My questions is: If the map is printed on b/w will the rectification >> work when it's uploaded in walking-papers.org? >> >Yes, colour is not used for the recification. Also, It doesn't warp the >images - it shouldn't have to (unless your printer and scanner have >serious problems), it just reads the 2D barcode and works out what part >of the world it was, and arranges the scan as suitably scaled tiles. > >I've found that it doesn't work too well if the scan is a low >resolution, and it can't cope with PDF scans. Sadly, this means that the >nice HP 9000 multi-function printer at work doesn't really work for it, >despite it being A3. >
But it's pretty easy to convert a PDF to a jpg, no? Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
