[josm-dev] WMS and remote-control

[Sebastian Klein]

Komяpa wrote:
> 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.

Done.

>>> 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.

OK, the question is: Make it opt-in or opt-out? Let's wait till it's 
ready, then we can decide...

Sebastian