Walking Papers
Walking Papers is a service that allows you to print out an OSM map, annotate it, and scan your annotations back in so that you can add new features to OSM.
Walking Papers was designed by Mike Migurski of Stamen Design.
The key features of walking papers is the ability to very easily create an A4 map printout. It generates a PDF stitching tiles taken from CloudMade's fine-line style which presents highways as thin lines on a white background.
Supported by editors:
Walking Papers includes Potlatch embedded into its main page so you can edit directly after scanning in a printout. On the server it generates a tile layer using the bitmap image of your scanned printout, and using the geolocation information encoded in the 2d barcode, and positioning of the corner symbols.
JOSM also supports walking papers via the plugin: JOSM/Plugins/WalkingPapers. This lets you bring in the same generated tiles as a background layer
Documentation and Questions
Some scans may not align themselves correctly to the map, like this one which also has "License status overlay" option turned on. Please help if you know what could cause this.
See also
- Video presentation held on the State Of The Map 2009 on Vimeo.
- Photos of walking papers in action: in Kibera, Nairobi, in London
