[Talk-us] Poor JOSM Yahoo imagery solution?

[Alan Mintz]

Is anyone working on a solution to the poor Yahoo image quality in JOSM 
(compared with Potlatch, browser, etc.)? This pic shows the striking diff 
between the same area at the same scale in JOSM and in Potlatch: 
http://sites.google.com/site/am909geo/osm-1/BadYahooImagery.jpg?attredirects=0

Unfortunately, the particular area I'm working on does not have 
Terraserver/USGS urban imagery available.

Is there a way to build an "offline" tile library from the yahoo (and USGS) 
imagery and have it used as a layer in  JOSM (without having to manually 
georeference each tile)? Resolution aside, since the imagery almost never 
changes (especially USGS), it seems more reasonable to have a local map of 
the areas I work on - just a few hundred square miles - than having to wait 
for many small tiles to load from servers every time I scroll around, not 
to mention the stall/re-load cycle I have to go through all the time.

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>