[josm-dev] Automatic tiles downloading in WMSPlugin

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Frederik Ramm wrote:

>> A question. Could we integrate the slipply map layer into the wmsplugin?
>> the slippy map plugin has some design issues and problems, whereas the
>> WMS stuff continously improves. Would it be possible to add another
>> loader to WMS plugin, so the slippy map is handled as well (and
>> especially using different zoom level like WMS)?
>
> I'm not sure this is a good idea, or put another way - it would be good
> to have a slippy map display capacity in WMS quality, but the slippy map
> plugin is intended more as a kind of "tiles at home helper", showing the
> tile boundaries and allowing you to request and display tile metadata or
>  request tile updates. As such, it is supposed to actually expose tile
> details - whereas the WMS layer is expected to hide them in order to
> provide a seamless background.

Ah. I was not aware of this. Is this really required for JOSM? Doesn't 
informationfreeway do a good job here?

> Perhaps we should have a slippy map display layer in the WMS plugin (and
> subsequently rename it "background image plugin"), and leave the grid

Yes. That's what I thought of. Having a slippymap based background image.

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