[OSM-newbies] JOSM and Yahoo imagery in the US - white stripes again on Gnome

[Rob Reid]

Eric Ladner wrote the following on 30/05/2009 03:29:
> Within the last month or so, white stripes started showing up in the 
> Yahoo WMS imagery.  I thought, "no problem, I'll just switch to the 
> Gnome Fix version".  However, it's not totally fixed by the Gnome Fix 
> version.  About half the tiles get the white stripped off my the 
> pnmcrop, but the other half don't.
>
> Has anybody seen this behavior and/or have a fix for it?
Eric, I started experiencing the exact same problem about the same time 
I upgraded JOSM for the api 0.6 changeover.
I also tried switching to the gnome-web-photo-fixed version with the 
same results as you, I noticed that imagery tiles that were completely 
shown were ok but tiles that were partially off screen mostly displayed 
with white stripes.
After a bit of messing about a bit trying to find a fix, the solution 
for me was to switch to webkit-image (QT) 
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wmsplugin#webkit-image_.28QT.29> 
which I found relatively straight forward even for a relative linux newb 
like myself. This has been completely reliable since I switched.

cheers

rcr