andrew heggie <list <at> sylva.icuklive.co.uk> writes: > > On Friday 19 December 2008 23:11:47 Sam Vekemans wrote: > > I would suggest that what the project really needs is a way to upload > > data to be processed by the OpenAerialMap server itself, rather than > > depending on users to upload 'appropriate' data. This means developing > > a processing queue to convert data from any available format to one > > more suitable for use in OAM. The discussion of what is 'appopriate' > > for OAM requires further discussion as well. > > I thought I was clever enough to upload 17 aerial photos of my home town to > which I have paid for free use (copyright retained by the aerial photography > firm) but when it came to complications of georectification I stalled. So I > agree a bit more help would be useful except how many people have use of such > photos? Mine are 4MB jpegs and with overlap they cover about 5km by 5km.
If you can acquire ground control points in some way I believe I could guide you a bit further. What you should do first is to find a few points from each image and measure the image coordinates (row and column of a pixel) and real world coordinates for that same pixel in some known projection. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
