[josm-dev] Slow WMS Yahoo (WebKit)

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Peter Herison wrote:

>>> Does anybody noticed slow connection to Yahoo-API-Server? When I use
>>> Yahoo-WMS-Layer it takes 2-5 minutes for a single picture to load.
>> Takes around 5-10 seconds per tile here.
>> Did you update your WMS Plugin lately?
>> Make sure that you're using the new "Yahoo Sat" WMS entry pointing to
>> "html:http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wmsplugin/YahooDirect.html?"
>
> Hmmm... I updated WMS-Plugin. Now I'm using JOSM 1741 and WMS-Plugin
> 16363, but I get the red "Error"-Pattern with YahooDirect.
>
> ---***---
> java.lang.Exception: Could not start browser. Please check that the
> executable path is correct.
> Cannot run program "webkit-image-gtk": CreateProcess error=2, Das System
> kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden
> ---***---
>
> I'm using Vista. How do I get this working with webkit-image.exe? %path%
> is extended to "d:\Program Files\josm" where josm also webkit-image.exe
> resides.

As it should have been done earlier you now can set the download program 
in the settings instead of handling it as a specific kind of URL. Why it 
is webkit-image-gtk on your system I cannot explain, webkit-image is the 
default.

Ciao
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