[josm-dev] make slippy map a core feature

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Sebastian Klein wrote:
> Is it just me, or is the slippy map plugin a pain to work with? It lags 
> on my system and is a memory hog.

Why do you want to work with it at all? It was originally intended to be 
a niche application for Tiles at Home users. It does not serve well as an 
editing background because as soon as you change something, the vector 
data and the background will be out of sync. Plus, the slippy map tiles 
are so colorful that it is difficult to read anything drawn on top of that.

> It would be nice if it was in the core version, i. e. View -> Add slippy 
> map layer.

I would normally object but since the code is already there in core for 
the slippy map downloader, if you manage to use that code (instead of 
duplicating it!) then that would probably make sense.

> Too decrease the network traffic one would then need a disk cache, but 
> make the tiles expire after approx. one hour and on demand.

... and *not* change zoom levels automatically ;-)

Bye
Frederik

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