Am 25.11.2010 20:02, schrieb Frederik Ramm: > Ian, > > Ian Dees wrote: >> There seem to be two methods of display that need to be handled: tiled (WMS >> and Slippymap) and static image (ImageLayer). Could the ImageLayer plugin be >> made to fit a tiled-image interface without causing too much trouble? > > I would be guessing if I said anything, really. I am the original author of > both the slippy map plugin and the WMS plugin (which rested heavily on > previous Landsat Plugin work) - but both are now much further advanced and I > have (blissfully) lost track of the inner workings of either. (All I know is > that the Yahoo stuff is still a pain, technically.) > > I have gone on record in the past saying that JOSM is too bloated (and I'd > *still* like to have a really lean version from time to time), but as > background layers go, I am really tempted to suggest that we try to hijack > one of the existing Open Source GIS packages. gvSig, for example, supports > most stuff you can think of - shapefiles, AutoCAD, KML, GML, GeoTIFF and > other raster formats, WMS and > WFS servers, direct access to spatial databases etc., and it is written in > Java. I haven't looked into it really but would it not be neat to create an > adapter that allowed JOSM to display gvSig datasources? Then we could have it > all without additional effort. > > uDig is another popular Open Source GIS, also in Java. > > Might be one of those things that only sound good on paper though :) >
What about geotools? http://www.geotools.org/ "GeoTools is a free, open source Java geospatial toolkit for working with both vector and raster data." This sounds that it is exactly what we need. There is btw a really good support for geo computations like reprojections and that stuff. Bye Christoph
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