On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:54 PM, David Ellams <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The aerial photos can be displaced slightly. Potlatch has a built in >> facility for moving the background photo to align it to the real >> world. > > Sorry, I am not clear - are you saying Potlatch will allow you to move > the Yahoo photography from its default position? If so, please could you > let me know how, as I cannot see an option. Go to http://www.openstreetmap.org in your browser. Zoom in to level 13 or better so that the edit button becomes available. Click on edit, and then select either "Edit Live", or "Edit with Save". Once you have Potlatch running, on the bottom of the screen is a button that has the word "Help" on it. Click that button, and a help screen opens up. On the top of the help screen, click on the word "Surveying". The last paragraph under "Using Satellite Photos" describes the process for shifting the photos against the map. While you have the help screen open, take a bit of time to read the information provided. Potlatch is actually a collection of fairly powerful tools, and information on how to access those tools is available in the help file. Now, you are probably thinking that it would have been much easier to simply say "Hold down "Space", and drag the background", but I'm hoping you and others will actually take the time to read the help file rather than keep asking those who have read the help file to regurgitate it for you. Richard went to the trouble to create the help file, the least we can do is read it. It's the old "Teach a man to fish" adage... The real short answer would have been RTFHP. 8) James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
