[talk-au] Looks like Nearmap is gone from JOSM slippymap plugin

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 27 11:25:15 GMT 2010


On 27 November 2010 19:08, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>> You can of course fork whatever you like, but allow me to point out that
>>
>> (1) if you are unhappy with the slippy map plugin, why not fork that instead
>> of the whole editor.
>>
>> (2) the slippy map plugin can be configured via the preferences to use
>> almost any kind of data source, whether legal or not; it is just that the
>> *default* datasources that are available with one click should not contain
>> something that causes licensing problems down the line.
>
> Yes. I should have been more specific.

You don't actually need to fork the plugin since you can add custom
tile locations, details have been on the Nearmap wiki page for quite
some time because it's useful for using past imagery, not just current
imagery:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nearmap#JOSM



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