[talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

[Roy Wallace]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Ben Last <ben.last at nearmap.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> 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).

This is (it seems) detailed here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slippy_map_tilenames

In short, as described on that page: "Filename(url) format is
/zoom/x/y.png", where "each zoom level is a directory, each column is
a subdirectory, and each tile in that column is a file."

Thanks!