[josm-dev] share resources with other editors

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Sun, 18 Dec 2011, Paul Hartmann wrote:

>>> 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)

See also http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/7016

I think JOSM's format is now better than that of P2 (yes, we did steal 
good ideas from this and other formats without shame :-)

Ciao
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