Thanks for the advice everyone.

With a DXF in hand, I broke down and installed lx-Viewer on a windows drive. 
That was able to export to PNG, which I uploaded to the MapWarper and warped 
with GCP against Landsat. I used the WMS generated from that in JOSM, and I 
know have a georeferenced image for tracing into OpenStreetMap.

http://wrp.geothings.net/mapscans/warped/90


I tried OpenJump with the DXF plugin, but encountered a bug .. in the file or 
the plugin I don't know.
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Number of points must be 0 or >3


Also with CAD2Shape, another windows tool, was able to get some Shapefiles 
exported.




A lot of places in the world use CAD for making maps. I'm not sure these are 
always georeferenced at all. Converting this into something usable for 
OpenStreetMap isn't straightforward, but something myself and a couple others 
are looking at.

-Mikel



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From: Landon Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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OpenJUMP currently has a plug-in that will read DXF files, if that will
do the trick.

SLB

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There was one support for that in Jump; a user ported to code to uDig 
(but since it was GPL we did not end up distrubuting it). I would ask 
the OpenJump project to see if they know what happened to it...

Jody
> Hi
>
> I'm working with CAD files from the city of al Mafrak, Jordan. We're 
> looking at bringing their existing municipal data into OpenStreetMap.
>
> Found Lx-Viewer [http://lx-viewer.sourceforge.net/] which looks like 
> just the thing. Only sticking point is that compiling Lx-Viewer 
> requires libraries from the "Open"DWG alliance 
> [http://www.opendwg.org/]. Access to those libraries requires a $250 
> membership fee.
>
> Any other options or suggestions for an NGO working in a small city in

> Jordan?
>
> Thanks
> Mikel
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