Re: [talk-ph] Be careful in tracing from Bing Maps

2011-01-05 Thread Jim Morgan
Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Thursday, 06 January, 2011 02:03 AM: In Potlatch 2 and Merkaartor 0.17, the imagery can be moved by pressing down the spacebar then dragging. I don't know how to do this in JOSM but it also has a way to move the background image. Brilliant. I didn't know you could

Re: [talk-ph] Be careful in tracing from Bing Maps

2011-01-05 Thread Rally de Leon
Hi Jim, It is possible to do this on the latest JOSM. I was also surprised (and very happy) to discover this powerful new feature on JOSM. Because I used to manually enter 'numeric values' for offset corrections (Northings/Eastings), and It's a long trial error process to get the best-fit; now

Re: [talk-ph] Be careful in tracing from Bing Maps

2011-01-05 Thread Jim Morgan
Rally de Leon wrote, On Thursday, 06 January, 2011 12:04 PM: the one i'm using on windows: JOSM (version 3767) While Bing Imagery GPS traces are shown on the JOSM's background: click on menu: Imagery -- New offset Don't seem to have that menu anywhere. I'm using the latest JOSM on Linux.

Re: [talk-ph] Be careful in tracing from Bing Maps

2011-01-05 Thread Rally de Leon
JOSM Version 3767 (on Windows) looks like this: http://s232.photobucket.com/albums/ee315/ralleon888/?action=viewcurrent=JOSMVersion3767ImageryOffset.jpg No need for extra plug-in (it's built-in):