[talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

Ben Last ben.last at nearmap.com
Tue Dec 29 08:53:08 GMT 2009


What is the URL format?  If it's possible to change the hostname so that it
points at our servers, and to set at least the first part of the path, I
could see whether we can implement a custom URL parser for it (like we have
for Potlatch).
b

2009/12/23 Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:42 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> The problem I'm really trying to solve is with the slippymap plugin,
> >> because it is compiled and the URL isn't easily setable/changeable by
> >> a user, there is no options to tweak the URL in the plugin
> >> interface/settings
> >
> > This isn't "easy", but you could try...going to the "Advanced
> > Settings" tab, and add a "slippymap.custom_tile_source_1" as described
> > at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/JOSM/Plugins/SlippyMap
> >
> > (note I haven't tested this myself)
>
> Ok, I tried this myself and it doesn't work, seemingly because the
> slippymap plugin attempts to fetch tiles from <url>/*/*/*.jpg, rather
> than <url>&z=<z>&x=<x>&y=<y>&nml=Vert.
>
> Something like that. This problem seems to be the motivation for
> Morb_au's "hosted Apache mod_rewrite instance" (details:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nearmap#JOSM)
>
> This is still a bit yuck. Anyone made any progress?
>



-- 
Ben Last
Development Manager (HyperWeb)
NearMap Pty Ltd
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