Assuming it's OK to use the map: 1. Use mapwarper http://wrp.geothings.net/ rectify the map via mapwarper's interface, and grab the wms link which you can paste to josm wms plugin. You now have a new wms for your map. Mapwarper wms is OK if you have reliable internet connection (which I don't have so I use option 2)
2. Download the warped image (rectified) from mapwarper, Then setup a local webmapserver using mapserver http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ and fetch the image using wms plugin of JOSM (you can easily do this since you're a linuz geek ;)) cheers, maning On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Jim Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, and as I've been dying to ask this question somewhere, I'm going to flood > the mailing list with an impossible two posts in the space of an hour. > > I'm assuming the maps on Wikipedia are open source. I used to live in Hong > Kong and here's an example from there which I'm particularly keen to use. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Discovery_bay_map.svg > > The license says "Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify > this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version > 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no > Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of > the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation > License"." > > OK well assuming I can use this, I can't really figure out how to do it. I > thought there might be a way to load it into JOSM as a background, and then > trace it. However it seems I need a Mapping Server to do this. I toyed with > the idea of setting up my own mapping server, but that seemed like trying to > crack a nut with a sledgehammer, so I thought I'd ask the group. What's the > best way to go about this? Assuming that the map is OK to use of course. > > Jim > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > -- |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| | __.-._ |"Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great." -Yoda | | '-._"7' |"Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden| | /'.-c |Linux registered user #402901, http://counter.li.org/ | | | /T |http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ | | _)_/L I http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ | |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
