Wow, how extremely useful! Thank you, Andreas. I implemented the deep link and you can see it on the following map, which I had originally linked to (it's lower down along the right sidebar):
http://mapknitter.org/map/view/mestia I'll probably style it more like a button so that people see it. I also made it show up only for maps which are licensed Creative Commons Attribution or dedicated to the public domain. Issue tracker: https://github.com/jywarren/mapknitter/issues/96 Thanks again. I made it possible to use OSM as a reference layer for rectification so that it's possible to "bootstrap" by using existing ODBL/CC-BY-SA data to rectify balloon imagery. I also think there's a lot of promise for those simply taking photos out the window of their airplane flight with a good camera -- especially when the plane is banking :-) Jeff On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Andreas Trawoeger < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeff! > > I don't have much insight into the Potlatch2 code myself, but you can > easily call Potlach2 with your own coordinates and TMS layers and I'm > using that feature a lot. > > For example > http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=48.3184&lon=14.3121&zoom=17&tileurl=http://tms3857.kartenwerkstatt.at/tiles/1.0.0/OGD_LINZ_ORTHO_EPSG3857/$z/$x/$y.png?origin=nw > puts you in the middle of Linz, Austria with an orthoimages background > based on Austrian OGD data fetched from my server. > > Greetings to Mapknitter.org > > cu andreas > > 2012/3/9 Jeffrey Warren <[email protected]>: > > Hello - I was just enjoying the "add a TMS background" feature in > Potlatch 2 > > (feel free to tell me to go to a different mailing list) and I created a > > brief guide to inserting your DIY balloon mapping aerial imagery > (grassroots > > mapping/public laboratory style) as a background: > > > > http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/editing-openstreetmap-balloon-maps > > (using data from ) > > > > It was kind of remarkable to me that the balloon maps seem to be well > within > > the precision of the GPS used to make the existing map of Mestia, > Georgia. > > In some areas, just based on how the GPS tracks wiggle on a straight > road, > > it seemed that the balloon map is a pretty great resource for filling in > > detail (once it's well rectified, of course). See the screenshots in the > > page above. > > > > Anyhow, I'm the main developer for MapKnitter.org, which is where most > > grassroots balloon/kite mappers in our community are rectifying their > > imagery. I was thinking it'd be really nice to add a "Use your map to > > contribute to OpenStreetMap" link/button, which could deep-link into a > > Potlatch 2 page with the layer already set up. > > > > Is that kind of deep linking something anyone is interested in > collaborating > > on? I can do all the integration from the MapKnitter side but don't have > > much experience with Potlatch code. I could also put this in as a Google > > Summer of Code idea but maybe it's too use-specific and actually too > small > > of a project. > > > > Just wondering if this was interesting to folks. > > > > Jeff > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > >
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