[josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

[Paul Johnson]

On 11/25/2010 01:02 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> I have gone on record in the past saying that JOSM is too bloated (and
> I'd *still* like to have a really lean version from time to time), but
> as background layers go, I am really tempted to suggest that we try to
> hijack one of the existing Open Source GIS packages. gvSig, for example,
> supports most stuff you can think of - shapefiles, AutoCAD, KML, GML,
> GeoTIFF and other raster formats, WMS and WFS servers, direct access to
> spatial databases etc., and it is written in Java. I haven't looked into
> it really but would it not be neat to create an adapter that allowed
> JOSM to display gvSig datasources? Then we could have it all without
> additional effort.

Quantum GIS supports OSM, but I'll be damned if I can figure it out.

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