On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 17:10, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Chris Browet <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 16:27, Ciarán Mooney < > [email protected]> > > 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 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 technology (although I > >> know a key algorithm is patented), so scans could be done on-site. > >> > > Are you talking about the "scan-as-background-then-draw" feature? > > > > Could be feasible the same way as Walking Papers (but probably not > > compatible, unless the way they encode their 2d barcode is public). > > The way they encode the QR code is public insofar that the source code > to walking papers is FOSS. > > At the same time, one of the criticisms of Walking Papers is the QR on > a walking Papers paper encodes a Walking Papers URL. It could be made > more generic (using just the bounding box, for example). > Definitely. If a bbox can de deduced from the URL, I would simply display the scanned map as another background layer in Merkaartor, the same way as GeoTIFF. - Chris -
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