[Talk-mm] Where are we now?

[Mifan Careem]

Adding Fran from the Sahana GIS team.

Regards

Mifan

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You're a card which will have to be dealt with.

On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 11:32 -0700, Mikel Maron wrote:
> 
> 
> > Tried the tiles on the demo.sahana.lk server and they show up, with
> > problems.  Primarily, the OSM tile scheme is y-inverted from what
> > OpenLayers TMS implementation expects.  This is easily fixable (in
> > javascript or otherwise), but doesn't work out of the box.
> 
> Note, that not just OSM, but all the major API tiling schemes, start
> with the upper-left corner as the origin.
> 
> The TMS spec starts with the bottom-left, as this makes more sense in
> "geographic space", the gmaps tiling et al is based in "image space".
> (IMO, this is also a reason to be somewhat sceptical of standards
> arising out of the GIS space, which can _purposely_ ignore what's
> already in common practice. Ok </rant>)
> 
> Anyway, as Tim said, it's only a small javascript fix to get this
> working.
> 
> -Mikel
>