Re: [josm-dev] sac_scale in JOSM - RFC for change of translation

2010-11-25 Thread Dirk Stöcker
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Fichtennadel wrote: I see your point, but if you look at the template it's not possible to put a long description in the list of values for sac_scale. And the current information is misleading, so the idea has been better none than wrong. There is already a link to the wiki

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On 11/24/2010 04:44 AM, Frederick Rama wrote: For the end-user, there's no difference in WMS and slippy map anyway, it only confuses them. Well, Slippy Map supports tiles, wmsplugin doesn't. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On 11/24/2010 04:44 AM, Frederick Rama wrote: For the end-user, there's no difference in WMS and slippy map anyway, it only confuses them. Well, Slippy Map supports tiles, wmsplugin doesn't. wmsplugin fetches images

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Well, Slippy Map supports tiles, wmsplugin doesn't. Ian Dees wrote: wmsplugin fetches images from WMS in a tiled format. Both correct - but people don't use the Slippymap or WMS plugins because they want to

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Well, Slippy Map supports tiles, wmsplugin doesn't. Ian Dees wrote: wmsplugin fetches images from WMS in a tiled format. Both

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-25 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:27:57 -0600, Ian Dees wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On 11/24/2010 04:44 AM, Frederick Rama wrote: For the end-user, there's no difference in WMS and slippy map anyway, it only confuses them. Well, Slippy Map

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-25 Thread 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.

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-25 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 25 November 2010 04:47, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On 11/24/2010 04:44 AM, Frederick Rama wrote: For the end-user, there's no difference in WMS and slippy map anyway, it only confuses them. Well, Slippy Map supports tiles, wmsplugin doesn't. You can pass to slippymap an URL

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-25 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 25 November 2010 21:31, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 November 2010 04:47, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On 11/24/2010 04:44 AM, Frederick Rama wrote: For the end-user, there's no difference in WMS and slippy map anyway, it only confuses them. Well, Slippy

Re: [josm-dev] Improved multipolygon plugin

2010-11-25 Thread Sebastian Klein
Viesturs Zarins wrote: Hi All, Just commited improvements to the multipolygon plugin. Changes: - Can now handle polygons consisting of several unclosed ways. - Supports multiple outer ways and deeper nesting. - Detects crossings. - Opens relation editor. It does not open the relation editor

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Dermot McNally
OK - I said I'd post again with my intentions. Here is a wiki page that I hope will outline the automatic imagery adjustment mechanism I've worked out with another mapper: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/True_Offset_Process Comments are welcome. By now we're happy that we've described

Re: [josm-dev] sac_scale in JOSM - RFC for change of translation

2010-11-25 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/11/25 Dirk Stöcker openstreet...@dstoecker.de: Actually I oppose this solution, as it is against the basic idea of how OSM works. IMHO the OSM solution would be to have no preset at all for sac_scale, as this is a specialist tag for alpine mountain hiking, not a general one, as far as I

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El día Thursday 25 November 2010 20:02:39, Frederik Ramm dijo: 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

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Komяpa
Hi, 2010/11/26 Dermot McNally derm...@gmail.com: Comments are welcome. There's corrections mechanism in twms server (http://code.google.com/p/twms/source/browse/twms/correctify.py) The code is not ideal, but it works. (A half a year or so already?) We're collecting the shifts dataset out of

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On 11/24/2010 04:44 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 11/24/2010 09:31 AM, Viesturs Zariņš wrote: Paris, Syndney seems more accurate but Moscow, Tallin has similar offset. Is there a way to improve the rectification? The JOSM slippy map plugin does not have a control for moving the layer

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On 11/25/2010 01:23 AM, Viesturs Zariņš wrote: Otherwise we will end up with lots of data traced with incorrect offsets. You mean, like the TIGER import? *duck* signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ josm-dev mailing list

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On 11/25/2010 12:27 PM, Ian Dees wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Paul Johnson baloo-PVOPTusIyP/sroww+9z...@public.gmane.org wrote: On 11/24/2010 04:44 AM, Frederick Rama wrote: For the end-user, there's no difference in WMS and slippy map anyway, it only confuses them. Well,

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On 11/25/2010 01:02 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: 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

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
Paul, On 11/26/10 07:54, Paul Johnson wrote: Quantum GIS supports OSM, but I'll be damned if I can figure it out. The Quantum GIS editor might be suitable for the occasional fix in OSM but cannot replace a full-blown specialist editor like JOSM. Also, because QGIS is not a Java program, we