The area where I go birding has some new development — only new streets so far. I’m very new to Open Street Maps. I added a footpath a few days ago in the same area using a GPS track so I don’t know much about the editors. I liked the default one I used which I guess is called iD ?
I did do a search before and I see there is an Open Aerial Map that I can contribute the photos to so I guess my question now is can I use iD or will I need to use a different editor?
If you select imagery in OpenAerialMap, it has a link to “Open in” which can load the imagery into iD without any difficulty, as long as you’re logged in.
Hi,
I’m using JOSM , where I can load my selfmade drone shoots as background Pic layer.
With Help/Plugin/PicLayer – JOSM you can add images as background.
To be used as an accurate reference to trace from you’d need to orthorectify the individual photos, using OpenDroneMap or a comparable tool, from there you could upload to OpenAerialMap if you want to make the imagery available to others or just make it easier to get into the editors.
PicLayer would be good if you don’t need it to be super accurate, but you just want to fairly quickly have the photo in the background for rough tracing.
Thank you to all…. I found OpenDroneMap but didn’t study it. This is clearly much harder than I anticipated. I guess “orthorectify” means scaled and rotated. The drone puts GPS in the EXIF data but it doesn’t put direction / heading.
I did install JOSM.
OpenAerialMap has a rather crude interface where each individual file needs to be selected. That’s kind of painful…
I find https://www.mapwarper.net/ much simpler to rectify drone shoots.
But in most cases I omit this step and use the images directly in pic layer / JOSM.