Hi Blake, Maning, and Jean-Guilhem, Just wanted to say thanks for everyone's input. Consensus is to stick with WMS/TMS with mapwarper.net as the place to upload the maps and georeference.
I'll be giving it a go in the next few days, you might hear from me again... All the best, Nick On 26 January 2016 at 13:15, Jean-Guilhem Cailton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nick, > > For the mappers to be able to use the georeferenced images within their > JOSM (or iD) editor, WMS/TMS would still be the best solution. > > If you send me your village names maps .pngs, with the rough > georeferencing saved in a PicLayers plugin files, I could set them up for > you. > > Best regards, > > Jean-Guilhem > > > > Le 26/01/2016 13:15, Nick Bristow a écrit : > > First off, sorry if I've addressed this to the wrong list - please point > me in the right direction if so... > > I am working on a Missing Maps project with the BRC and MSF in London. We > recently had a mapathon organised around > > #1432 Missing Maps: DRC, Digitising Katanga field maps > <http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1432> > > The task is in two parts: > 1. Update the basemap from Bing > 2. Add village names from some MSF field notes (essentially hand drawn > maps) > > My question is whether there is an easy way to share these images ( .pngs > roughly georeferenced with the PicLayers plugin in JOSM) with the group? > > In an ideal world, on the task page there would be some kind of link which > (possibly using remote control) would load the georeferenced image into a > mapper's JOSM in the right place. This is all new to me. I've been reading > about WMS/TMS servers which all seems like overkill. Is there a simple > solution possibly linking to images shared on a Google Drive? The pngs are > small files (a few hundred kb) but cover large areas (a few hundred km). > > If anyone has any experience of something similar, or could just point me > in the right direction it would be much appreciated! > > Many thanks, > > Nick Bristow > NickJOB <http://tasks.hotosm.org/user/NickJOB> > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing > [email protected]https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > >
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