JOSM/Plugins/PicLayer
This plugin allows to load pictures and display them as JOSM layer.
Quick animated how-to: Piclayer Usage
There is also a german page available : DE:Piclayer/Anleitung
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General information
Features
- supported formats : PNG, JPEG, GIF
- moving/rotating/scaling the picture with the mouse
- loading/saving of the picture position on the map (.cal files)
Limitations
- no support for (Geo)TIFF
- no georeferencing based on reference points or coordinates (only positioning with the mouse)
- cal files are projection specific
Installation
Use the plugin panel in the preferences of JOSM to install this plugin.
Usage
Loading a picture
- First, you will have to create a map layer
- select the menu "PicLayer" / "New Picture Layer from File"
- select one or several files
If calibration files (.cal) are available, then will be loaded automatically. If not, the image center will be placed at the current center of the screen, at a scale where it's reasonably visible.
Geo-referencing
- New way (see animation at Piclayer Usage)
- Activate the layer.
- Click green arrow button at the left toolbar
- Select picture checkpoints ( 3 checkpoints needed for processing)
- Click red arrow button at the left toolbar
- At this mode you can move checkpoints (you should point exactly in the bubble of the point) and image will transform
- Old way
- Activate the layer (not only select, really activate, this is important)
- Click on the appropriate icon "Drag to ... the picture" in the toolbar
- Use the mouse. You can press SHIFT while rotating or scaling the picture for a better precision.
Saving the cal file
Right click on a layer, "Save picture calibration..."
Loading the cal file
It will be loaded automatically when loading the picture based on the file name (picture.png.cal for instance). You can also load a cal file manually with "Load picture calibration..."
Important: the cal file is projection specific, make sure you use the same projection when saving and loading
History
See JOSM/Plugins/PicLayer/ReleaseNotes
Other links
- JAR file: http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/editors/josm/dist/
- Code: http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/editors/josm/plugins/piclayer
- Open tickets in trac
Annexes
Old .cal file format
Example :
#JOSM PicLayer plugin calibration data #Mon Nov 15 19:38:35 CET 2010 SCALEX=1.0 SCALEY=1.0 SHEARX=0.0 SHEARY=0.0 INITIAL_SCALE=190.92609423045016 POSITION_Y=292616.03696207993 POSITION_X=490266.6137017577 INITIAL_POS_y=293088.4061731008 INITIAL_POS_X=490909.1888228225 ANGLE=58.77
- INITIAL_SCALE: world meters / 100 pixels at the time you load the image
- SCALE_X/Y : additional scaling done by the user
- SHEAR_X/Y : meaning ?
- INITIAL_POS_X/Y : meaning ?
- POSITION_X/Y : position of the center of the image in world meters
- ANGLE : 0 means not rotated
About scaling : the size of the image in world meters is : imgsize / 100 * INITIAL_SCALE * SCALE_X/Y
Remember that the cal files are projection specific, but the projection is not stored in the file.
Note: Josm may crash when trying to open a very old cal-file (see ticket 6123 with workaround)
New .cal file format
Example :
#JOSM PicLayer plugin calibration data #Sun Nov 27 22:21:58 CET 2011 POSITION_Y=6708383.375731533 POSITION_X=602463.1049788792 INITIAL_SCALE=673.3630407396365 M12=-714.691403694874 M11=0.508636037014039 M10=6.263463862108147E-5 M02=43.42632371753174 M01=-2.1720970442278513E-4 M00=0.5060984647587284
- INITIAL_SCALE: world centimeters / pixel at the time you load the image (the same as in old .cal format)
- POSITION_X and POSITION_Y : position of the center of the image in world meters (the same as in old .cal format)
- M00,M01,M02 and M10,M11,M12 : affine transform coefficients
How to convert an old .cal file format to new .cal file format
TODO.
World file and new .cal file format
TODO.
