[talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

[Franc Carter]

HI Alex,

I'd like to add my appreciation to NearMap as well, it's a fantastic resource.

I'd be interested to know if their is anything that I can do to help
make sure NearMap remains viable

cheers

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Alex Kwiatkowski
<alex.kwiatkowski at nearmap.com> wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> My names Alex and I work at Nearmap. I'm responsible for the Javascript
> browser application so I can only answer a sub set of all the questions I
> see here on the mailing list. I'll have to pass some of the salesy type ones
> onto someone else.
>
> In the areas we fly, we normally have images up to zoom level 21 or 22. In
> some very rare areas we do return images at levels higher than this (e.g.
> Perth CBD). The browser application @ www.nearmap.com allows you to zoom
> into level 24 on all areas. It does this by scaling the images up from a
> lower level on the client side. So if you can zoom into level 24 it doesn't
> necessarily mean you will be able to request images from level 24 in your
> plugins.
>
> I hope that helps some of you guys. I'm really excited that the OSM
> community has got on board and already given us heaps of great feedback that
> we're busily trying to schedule into our release plans :)
>
>
>
> David Dean wrote:
>>
>> This pseudo-wms (or whatever we are calling it) doesn't appear to zoom in
>> as far as the NearMap data allows. For example, this link:
>>
>> http://map-data.bigtincan.com/wms/nearmap.php?bbox=153.0113011,-27.4445217,153.0115373,-27.4443121&srs=EPSG:4326&width=500&height=500
>>
>> returns the right region, but is not 500*500 pixels in width. It seems
>> that the zoom level is not getting any closer than z18, while I think
>> NearMap can support a fair way past that.
>>
>> - David
>>
>>
>>
>> Bugzilla from deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>> Actually I added the username/password as part of the URL for the
>>> images and it now works in JOSM :)
>>>
>>> Add a new WMS layer etc, and put the URL as:
>>>
>>> html:http://map-data.bigtincan.com/wms/nearmap.php?
>>>
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Franc