HI Alex, I'd like to add my appreciation to NearMap as well, it's a fantastic resource.
I'd be interested to know if their is anything that I can do to help make sure NearMap remains viable cheers On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Alex Kwiatkowski <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > My names Alex and I work at Nearmap. I'm responsible for the Javascript > browser application so I can only answer a sub set of all the questions I > see here on the mailing list. I'll have to pass some of the salesy type ones > onto someone else. > > In the areas we fly, we normally have images up to zoom level 21 or 22. In > some very rare areas we do return images at levels higher than this (e.g. > Perth CBD). The browser application @ www.nearmap.com allows you to zoom > into level 24 on all areas. It does this by scaling the images up from a > lower level on the client side. So if you can zoom into level 24 it doesn't > necessarily mean you will be able to request images from level 24 in your > plugins. > > I hope that helps some of you guys. I'm really excited that the OSM > community has got on board and already given us heaps of great feedback that > we're busily trying to schedule into our release plans :) > > > > David Dean wrote: >> >> This pseudo-wms (or whatever we are calling it) doesn't appear to zoom in >> as far as the NearMap data allows. For example, this link: >> >> http://map-data.bigtincan.com/wms/nearmap.php?bbox=153.0113011,-27.4445217,153.0115373,-27.4443121&srs=EPSG:4326&width=500&height=500 >> >> returns the right region, but is not 500*500 pixels in width. It seems >> that the zoom level is not getting any closer than z18, while I think >> NearMap can support a fair way past that. >> >> - David >> >> >> >> Bugzilla from [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> Actually I added the username/password as part of the URL for the >>> images and it now works in JOSM :) >>> >>> Add a new WMS layer etc, and put the URL as: >>> >>> html:http://map-data.bigtincan.com/wms/nearmap.php? >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-au mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >>> >>> >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/NearMap-PhotoMap-imagery-for-OSM-tp26192031p26300444.html > Sent from the OpenStreetMap - Australian Talk mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > -- Franc _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
