[josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

[David Paleino]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:27:57 -0600, Ian Dees wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Paul Johnson
> <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 11/24/2010 04:44 AM, Frederick Rama wrote:
> > > For the end-user, there's no
> > > difference in WMS and slippy map anyway, it only confuses them.
> >
> > Well, Slippy Map supports tiles, wmsplugin doesn't.
> 
> wmsplugin fetches images from WMS in a tiled format.

Slippymap supports TMS, wmsplugin doesn't, AFAICT. What wsmplugin does is a
pseudo-tiling, to improve performance. But it does request several small bboxes
from WMS servers.

They're different technologies. Which yes, could be merged together in an
"imagery plugin", but keep in mind they're *different*. So you need to handle
multiple cases in this yet-to-be-born plugin.

My 2c,
David

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