[josm-dev] share resources with other editors

[Paul Hartmann]

On 12/18/2011 04:39 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Paul Hartmann <phaaurlt at googlemail.com>wrote:
> 
>> On 12/18/2011 04:04 PM, Jonathan Bennett wrote:
>>> On 18/12/2011 13:46, Dirk Stöcker wrote:
>>>
>>>> Working together with the autors of other editors also would be a good
>>>> idea, but until today all such tries failed miserably.
>>>
>>> I suspect what this needs is for one person to just go ahead and
>>> implement something, and for the other editor coders to see what they've
>>> done -- similar to how MapCSS got adopted.
>>
>> The lowest hanging fruit would be to share TMS sources:
>>
>> <
>> http://git.openstreetmap.org/potlatch2.git/blob/HEAD:/resources/imagery.xml
>>>
>> http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Maps
>>
>> Both lists are quite long, but have surprisingly little overlap.
>>
>> The format seems to be more or less compatible, in the sense that you
>> could automatically translate from one to the other.
>>
>>
> The format for the JOSM TMS source list is pretty crummy because it was
> trying to fit all the interesting data on one line. Switching to something
> closer to P2's format would probably be a good thing.

It has been changed 4 months ago, to something quite close to P2's xml
list. (see linked page)

Paul