[josm-dev] zoom support in new wms plugin

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

    I haven't followed the new WMS plugin development much but it seems 
to be a good development - thank you to all involved. Someone on the 
talk list has also written he's quite happy with it.

There is one thing that confounds me. It seems that the scale for a 
given layer is fixed the moment I download it initially. When I then 
zoom in, everything is "pixelized" from blowing up the bitmap (something 
that a normal WMS client would do differently but it is acceptable). 
However when I then, while zoomed in, pan off the loaded area into the 
void, the data that is loaded from the WMS is *still* on the original 
scale and thus pixelized, as if I had zoomed out, then loaded, then 
zoomed in again.

Is this by design? If I do a new WMS download while zoomed in, I get a 
second layer (same name) with more details. What happens if I now zoom 
out and pan around, will JOSM then try and fetch gargantuan bitmaps and 
scale them down?

Bye
Frederik

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