Maybe everyone else knows this, but I just discovered it myself so I thought I would share it.
I've been using Remap-a-tron to fix up US roads. I use both the Bing imagery and the TIGER 2012 tiles overlaid, and it makes it really useful. However, I've been frustrated that I can pretty far in with the Bing images, but if I go too far, the Tiger (normally transparent) tiles turn grey and obscure the Bing images. I've been continually turning off and back on the Tiger layer, which is a bit annoying after a while. JOSM has an easy limit in the Preferences for the maximum zoom, but it affects everything. I set it to 19, and then I did not get the grey boxes from Tiger, but did not get the higher detailed photos from Bing either. As it turns out, JOSM does have a max-zoom per tile server feature; it just is not obvious or clearly documented that I could find. You can enter it as part of the TMS url like this: tms[19]:http://{switch:a,b,c}.tile.openstreetmap.us/tiger2012_roads/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png The number 19, right up front, says that the maximum zoom to use for this layer is 19. This solved the whole thing for me. I also found that if you go into Josm preferences in expert mode, and dig and dig and dig into the imagery providers entries, this is labeled as max-zoom. Too bad it isn't easier to find. Anyways, hope this helps others too. - Alan _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
