[talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-13 Thread Andrew Harvey
Just a heads up that GA have a tile service for their NATMAP 250K Topo Maps. So if you add this to JOSM/etc you can use this as a base layer to derive information from. http://www.ga.gov.au/gisimg/rest/services/topography/NATMAP_Digital_Maps_250K_2008Ed ition_WM/MapServer/tile/{zoom}/{y}/{x}

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-13 Thread David Bannon
Interesting Andrew. Do you know much about this service ? I have been trying to display it in FoxtrotGPS which normally uses OSM or Google tiles. But I find two puzzling things - 1. While I request png files I seem to get JPEG 2. Their Y and X number system seems to be miles away from where I'd

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-13 Thread Andrew Harvey
On 13 November 2013 22:01, David Bannon dban...@internode.on.net wrote: Interesting Andrew. Do you know much about this service ? I know that they also publish the original ECW files, which I originally converted to JPEG and hosted on my own server as a service which converted these into web map

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-13 Thread David Bannon
Ah, z/y/x ? that makes sense. FoxtrotGPS does not do z/y/x. Just what I'd expect from GA, worked with them indirectly some time ago. Another life. I also played with pulling png tiles out of the GA ECW maps but gave up dealing with their website, they made endless changes that broke firefox each

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-13 Thread Paul Norman
From: David Bannon [mailto:dban...@internode.on.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps Then the license holder withdrew the ecw plugin for GDAL... There's still an ECW plugin for GDAL. It requires the third-party SDK and