On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Chris Hunter <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thank you Chris for the information.I have the following queries. > > > Where do I get the aerial imagery? > > Yahoo, landsat, or SRTM should have imagery for your area. Check the > wiki page for India and/or your district to see if there are any > better sources. > > > Do we need to scan the maps printed with the points marked? I thought GPS > points could be enough to use with JOSM..? > > Scanning the walking papers isn't strictly necessary, but having them > open in JOSM makes it easier to tell what track belongs to what map > feature. > > > I went to http://walking-papers.org But since this is a campus, I dont > find any printable data there. What should be wrong? > > Is there anything in the map right now? Can you provide a permalink? > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=11.322174&lon=75.934829&zoom=18 > > > Im not sure about the plugins for JOSM and new to them. How do I identify > those required for this purpose? > > There's a summary of most of the plugins linked off of the JOSM wiki page. > > > What is the necessity for scanning the walking papers? > > See above. > > > How do I upload the trace file? > > Login to your account from the OSM main screen and click on "GPS > Traces" button, then "upload a trace". > > > I just need to mark the waypoints GPX into the data downloaded from OSM? > > Yes. You should have a minimum of four layers open in JOSM: > 1. Data later > 2. Downloaded GPS data > 3. Waypoints GPX file > 4. Reference imagery (either aerial or walking papers) > > There are several howto videos on the wiki and youtube on how to edit > with JOSM that may be helpful. > > I would check them. Thank you. > > DiverCTH (Chris) > > On 9/19/09, Sajjad Anwar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello. > > We are planning a micro mapping party to map the National Institute of > > Technology, Calicut, Kerala, India. The campus and the surroundings comes > to > > an approximate 300-350 Acres. We are trying to arrange the GPS devices. > We > > plan to use JOSM editor. > > > > What should be the steps to map the region, buildings, paths, roads etc? > > How do we collect the data? > > > > > > Regards. > > -- > > Sajjad Anwar > > http://geohackers.in > > http://fsugcalicut.org > > [email protected] > > +91 9995 19 13 12 > > > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > -- Sajjad Anwar http://geohackers.in http://fsugcalicut.org [email protected] +91 9995 19 13 12
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