Thank you guys for your answers. As for my original problem, I noticed that streets were aligned with Yahoo images while buildings are not, therefore I assumed that buildings are wrongly placed.
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Aspen Swartz <[email protected]> wrote: > > ------------------------------ > > > > 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 >
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