On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Peter O'Doherty <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Serge and Andy for your advice. > > I don't have the technical skills or knowledge of OSM to undertake a project > of the scope my original idea seems to entail. Therefore I think I need to > go back to the drawing board and simplify. >
> My alternative idea was the software equivalent of "tracing" where one uses, > say, tracing paper (or sheet of perspex) laid on top of a paper map - the > new map is drawn on the paper using the map underneath as a guide and when > finished, after removal of the original map, you're left with a simplified > map. What is the age of the kids? If they're young enough, I think there's value in teaching them how to make the map itself the way a renderer does- with lines, and then drawing them in (think graph paper). There are a couple of tools to trace paper maps. There's the famous one Field Papers, which works in conjuction with OSM. There's this new tool http://www.gislounge.com/automating-extracting-gis-data-scanned-maps/ But honestly, I think you could do a lot with just collecting data with GPSes, traces, and then displaying that as vector data. How old are the kids? - Serge _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
