> ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:18:11 -0600 > From: James Ewen <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Trust Yahoo or OSM? > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 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 >
Thank you, that was very clear and just the sort of learning I signed up to the newbies list for. Aspen (eulochon) _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
