[josm-dev] WMS and remote-control

[Komяpa]

2010/8/12 Sebastian Klein <bastikln at googlemail.com>:
> Komяpa wrote:

>> 1) Due to Landsat WMS being down and overloaded usually, we've set up
>> a caching WMS proxy for it.
>> JOSM URL is http://irs.gis-lab.info/?layers=landsat&
>> Please consider updating JOSM defaults.
> Do you want it to show up in the list on the bottom, or make it installed by
> default instead of the standard landsat URL?
> Are you sure, you can handle the traffic?
This server also provides IRS imagery for Russia for quite a long time.
I'm sure it will be able to handle traffic. So, worth trying
installing it by default.

> However you cannot force people to delete an entry from their
> menu, once it has been added it to their bookmarks.
Ok.

>> Now, we need a convenient way to load that imagery into josm. An
>> extenstion to josm-remote that will load specified WMS URL will be
>> just fine. Hope somebody will write it, as I'm no java coder,
>> unfortunately.
>
> There are some security issues when the browser has too much control over
> the client software.

As far as I know, josm-remote has options that lets paranoid users
disable some of its features if they dislike that.

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