On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 02:31:34PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron 
collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Tom Russo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > "OSM_tiled_mapquest" is the mapquest rendering of OSM data.
> 
> I hate to whine like this without doing the work myself, but why not
> use the version of this layer with the transparent background? 

Because nobody had done the work themselves to identify it, make sure it 
actually works, and check that our use of it would be consistent with the 
mapquest terms of service?  Lee did all of that.  If you do the work, I'll do 
the committing.

> This
> allows things like overlaying OSM/Mapquest road data on whatever fill
> layer you want, something Xastir is quite good at.
> 
> This is the layer I'm talking about:
> http://ttiles02.mqcdn.com/tiles/1.0.0/vx/hyb/{Z}/{X}/{Y}.png

If you do the legwork of making sure that the "vx/hyb" layer in mapquest
is OK to use the way we want to use it, then the change is relatively
trivial -- one adds:

OSM_tiled_mapquest-transparent.geo: OSM_template
        sed -e '/THIS IS A TEMPLATE FILE/d' 
-e's/^#OSM_TILED_MAP/OSM_TILED_MAP/' \
            -e's!^#URL tileURL!URL 
http://ttiles02.mqcdn.com/tiles/1.0.0/vx/hyb/!'\
 \
            -e 's/-STYLE/-mapquest-transparent/' \
            < $(top_srcdir)/OSM_template >$@

to Makefile.am and adds "OSM_tiled_mapquest-transparent.geo" to the online_DATA
variable in Makefile.am, rebootstraps, reconfigures, and does a make install.

If you find that works fine and that the mapquest terms of service allow us
to use this set of data that way, then committing is a matter of seconds.


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