Chris Browet has been working on getting Yahoo map support in Merkaartor. His first implementation downloaded tiles directly from Yahoo. On advice from the OSM community we disabled this since it was felt this would go against the Terms of Usage of Yahoo : we had to use the flash of javascript API to get to the image.
Since then he has implemented a second method : this uses the Qt port of the Webkit html rendering engine to render the following webpage http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/editors/merkaartor/ymap.html (Btw the JOSM yahoo through firefox plugin uses the same page) The webpage is rendered offscreen and cropped to the appropriate image through this code http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/editors/merkaartor/QMapControl/browserimagemanager.cpp Tiles are then managed with QMapControl by Kai Winter and used to construct the background image and are not permanently stored. I strongly believe this is 100% equivalent to the JOSM Yahoo plugin from the point of view of Yahoo. If no serious concerns are raised, I will release a binary release of Merkaartor with the Yahoo maps ability in the next week. cu bart _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
