Maning, that is a wonderful site, I have been recifying these maps using a package called OziExplorer, but it has not worked well at all, we were using them for airbourne navigation as an additional option on a handheld Win PDA This is a much better option and a GeoTiff can be downloaded
Thanks for sharing Mark C On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:24 AM, maning sambale <[email protected]>wrote: > Sharing with you a test site I am currently working on called Ph MapWarper: > > http://ec2-50-17-155-14.compute-1.amazonaws.com/ > > It is free and open access online catalog of Philippine paper maps. > Where you can find maps and other imagery, upload, and rectify against > a real map. You can then download and use the rectified map in your > mapping applications. > > This is a fork of Tim Waters map warper/rectifier [0]. For video > tutorial on how to use the app, check out NYPL's video [1 and 2]. > > At the moment, we have uploaded several hundreds of 1950's topo maps > ready for rectification. In the future, I see this as an additional > resource for OSM. Feel free to play around, this is still in beta and > hosted on Amazon EC2 Micro instance (maybe slow at times). > > Enjoy! > > > [0] https://github.com/maning/mapwarper > [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO9cGOqrhYo > [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8ms_eBU8MQ > -- > cheers, > maning > ------------------------------------------------------ > "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden > wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ > blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph >
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