Thanks Manning for spotting this: great indeed and timely for re-use in the next days of the ong-going Projet EOF trainings to Western African mappers in Lomé.
On 10/4/14, Severin Menard <[email protected]> wrote: > Great! Are the Yahoo layers still available? I had already tried to inform > the pluginś developpers that it is not supported for years. > > Severin > > On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 12:39 AM, maning sambale > <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Not really solving the problem in this thread, but, FYI, humanitarian >> style is now available directly in QGIS via OpenLayers Plugin [0]. >> >> [0] http://hub.qgis.org/issues/11185 >> >> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Claire Halleux >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > I do personnally use QGIS for this kind of task and I think it is >> > likely >> to >> > be the most useful and easy place for it, however this request was >> > about >> > making it work using ArcGIS. So, thank you very much for all the >> instructive >> > tips, specially to Brad and Peter! >> > >> > Refreshing the cache within the application solved the issue of the >> > different (not matching) zoom levels. >> > As it seems that nobody hosts the humanitarian style OSM layer yet in a >> way >> > that it could be used, the GIS guys are back using the standard OSM >> basemap >> > for the urgent needs, but your suggestions will soon be tried too. >> > >> > Best, >> > >> > Claire >> > >> > Claire Halleux >> > Volunteer and Member of the Board >> > +243 99 256 9980 (Kinshasa, DRC) >> > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team >> > >> > http://www.hotosm.org/ >> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_DRC_Ebola_Response >> > >> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Peter Chin <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi Claire, >> >> >> >> I can add OSM layers in my arcgis online account. You'll need to have >> >> an >> >> arcgis online account and then login at maps.arcgis.com, then in your >> Arcgis >> >> home page, click on My Content, then click "Create Map", then >> >> in the top left corner click "Add", Add layer from Web, and choose "A >> WMS >> >> OGC Web Service", then enter a valid WMS/Web map service OGC URL. >> >> >> >> There are a few free OSM WMS Servers. One is >> >> http://129.206.228.72/cached/osm? >> >> which is hosted by the folks at osm-wms.de m(Univ. of Hiedleberg). >> When >> >> you've entered http://129.206.228.72/cached/osm? click "Add" and >> you'll get >> >> a basic OSM base map (not the OSM Humanitarian layer) but a basic OSM >> base >> >> map. >> >> >> >> You should be able to find other free WMS OGC servers of OpenStreetMap >> >> base layers at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WMS If you're stuck, >> send >> >> me a private email message and I'll see if I can help some more. >> >> If you want the HOT style basemap, you'll need to request that the WMS >> >> providers add this basemap to their hosting service. >> >> >> >> Best Regards, >> >> >> >> >> >> Peter Chin >> >> Canadian Red Cross Volunteer >> >> E-mail: [email protected] >> >> www.redcross.ca | www.croixrouge.ca >> >> Canadian Red Cross Shelter Cluster Project: >> >> www.sheltercluster.org/Asia/Philippines/Pages/default.aspx >> >> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > HOT mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> cheers, >> maning >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden >> wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ >> blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > -- Nicolas Chavent Projet OpenStreetMap (OSM) Projet Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Projet Espace OSM Francophone (EOF) Mobile (FRA): +33 (0)6 52 40 78 20 <[email protected]> Email: [email protected] Skype: c_nicolas Twitter: nicolas_chavent _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
