[OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Chris Browet
Hi All, I plan to implement printing in Merkaartor 0.16. While thinking about it, I wondered whether there would be a need for mapping party ready printouts? By instance, the map could be printed with specific styles (e.g. for missing names) or grided for work distribution... If there is such a

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com wrote: Hi All, I plan to implement printing in Merkaartor 0.16. While thinking about it, I wondered whether there would be a need for mapping party ready printouts? By instance, the map could be printed with specific styles

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Ciarán Mooney
Hi, Something that would be useful would be something akin to Walking Papers, but with the ability to carve an area up, and have multiple maps of it (zoomed out and zoomed in). Even better if what you produce from Merkaartor was compaitable with Walking Papers, or could implement the same

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Chris Browet
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 16:27, Ciarán Mooney general.moo...@googlemail.comwrote: Hi, Something that would be useful would be something akin to Walking Papers, but with the ability to carve an area up, and have multiple maps of it (zoomed out and zoomed in). Even better if what you

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 16:27, Ciarán Mooney general.moo...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Something that would be useful would be something akin to Walking Papers, but with the ability to carve an area up, and have

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Chris Browet
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 17:10, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 16:27, Ciarán Mooney general.moo...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Something that would be useful would be something

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Ciarán Mooney
Hi, The way they encode the QR code is public insofar that the source code to walking papers is FOSS. That isn't the patented technology. The algorithmn that is able to calculated the orientation of the paper that is scanned and re-orientate it (I have never scanned in a piece of paper

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party ready printouts from Merkaartor. Needed?

2010-02-18 Thread Chris Browet
Hi, The way they encode the QR code is public insofar that the source code to walking papers is FOSS. That isn't the patented technology. The algorithmn that is able to calculated the orientation of the paper that is scanned and re-orientate it (I have never scanned in a piece of paper