On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 19:12 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Sebastian Klein wrote: > > Is it just me, or is the slippy map plugin a pain to work with? It lags > > on my system and is a memory hog. > > Why do you want to work with it at all? It was originally intended to be > a niche application for ti...@home users. It does not serve well as an > editing background because as soon as you change something, the vector > data and the background will be out of sync. Plus, the slippy map tiles > are so colorful that it is difficult to read anything drawn on top of that.
I use it for two things. First, as an enhanced slippymapchooser. It lets me quickly find new areas to edit without opening up the dialog and resizing it. I also use it to browse around the map and find problems. I used it to clean up most of Oregon's motorway_links that aren't attached to motorways, for instance. > > It would be nice if it was in the core version, i. e. View -> Add slippy > > map layer. > > I would normally object but since the code is already there in core for > the slippy map downloader, if you manage to use that code (instead of > duplicating it!) then that would probably make sense. I guess I could go check this code out as well. It would be nice to merge them. > > Too decrease the network traffic one would then need a disk cache, but > > make the tiles expire after approx. one hour and on demand. > > ... and *not* change zoom levels automatically ;-) I thought this was already a feature, but I'd be happy to go back and revisit it. To me, it doesn't make a lot of sense to do this. How do you use it that this is important? -- Dave _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
