The WMS layer links are for JOSM. And yes, thats a good idea to put all the available WMS layers together on the same wiki page. I know that there MUST be a wms layer that shows the NTS box, but i havent found it.
Feel free to jump in the #osm-ca IRC chat. Their is a user who works with Merkaarator who can help with the learning curve. Sam On 6/26/10, James Ewen <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there anyone using Merkaartor and WMS layers within Canada? > > I looked at Merkaartor many months ago, when it was very rudimentary. > It appears now to be much more capable, and I'd like to start playing > with it. > > However, the documentation for the program is very much lacking. It's > currently at the stage where you really need to know what you are > doing, and know the details about what you want to do in order to get > things set up properly. That's a little difficult to do when you don't > have the knowledge. > > Merkaartor appears to have the ability to add new WMS servers to its > abilities, but there is no documentation about how to set up a new WMS > server. > > I grabbed a link from the Toporama website and pasted it into the > Server URL spot on the WMS servers setup page, and if you click on get > capabilities, you get a long list of all the available information > from Toporama. However, when I enable the layer, all I get is a little > grey box. > > Anyone know what to do? > > While we are at this, is there a list of available WMS servers that > contain Canadian data? This would be a great OSM Wiki page. > > James > VE6SRV > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #osm-ca Canadian OSM channel (an open chat room) @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
