[josm-dev] Automatic tiles downloading in WMSPlugin

[Petr Dlouhý]

Hello,

Thanks for the testing. I have an account now, but I would like more  
testing before commiting.
Ok, I implemented save and load (bud I doubt, if it is usefull). I also  
implemented grabber choosing through getGrabber(), but to get OSGBGrabber  
working, it needs to be rewriten to thread support.
The new version could be downloaded from:
http://stary.czp.cuni.cz/petr/wmsplugin-2.tar.bz2
http://stary.czp.cuni.cz/petr/wmsplugin-2.patch
http://stary.czp.cuni.cz/petr/wmsplugin-2.jar

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:22:34 +0200, Bodo Meissner <bodo at bodo-m.de> wrote:

>
> Petr Dlouhý wrote on 28.08.2008 01:56:
>
>
> Hello Petr,
>
> I used the first version of your plugin for a short test.
> The automatic downloading is very useful when checking or mapping a
> larger area.
>
> I have some suggestions for improvement:
>
> When scrolling around or changing the zoom level, the tile should not be
> downloaded immediately but after some configurable delay when the view
> is no longer changed. This would avoid downloading large amounts of
> unwanted data. It might even be useful for some users or for some WMS
> servers to completely disable automatic downloading.
>

I don't like waiting before the tiles get loaded, it would be very tiring.
The tiles are downloaded only if it's zoomed enough, so if you want to  
look around without downloading new tiles, then just zoom out a little. I  
found that very intuitive.

>
> As I already told in my reply to Frederik's message, I suggest to re-add
> the save and load functions. This feature is useful to avoid repeated
> downloading of the same area.
>
> If you use remove the switch between WMSGrabber and OSGBGrabber it may
> no longer be possible to use the NPE maps server[s]. So this might be an
> important feature.
>
>
> Bodo



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Petr Dlouhý