[Talk-us] Slippymap for USGS topos?

Matthew Luehrmann matthew.luehrmann at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 16:42:53 BST 2011


Has anyone gotten these links to work in JOSM?  They look really useful, but
I have not been able to get JOSM to recognize them.

Thanks,
Matt


On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Eric Wolf <ebwolf at gmail.com> wrote:

> The USTopo products are not the "good old" 1:24K. Rather, they are GeoPDFs
> generated out of The National Map layers (with one exception).
>
> You can get the classic scanned topos (Digital Raster Graphics, DRGs) via
> WMS:
>
> [drg]
>
> type=WMS
> url=http://raster.nationalmap.gov/ArcGIS/services/DRG/TNM_Digital_Raster_Graphics/MapServer/WMSServer
> layers=0,1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23
> levels=24
> bbox=-180,90,180,-90
> srs=EPSG:102113 <http://raster.nationalmap.gov/ArcGIS/services/DRG/TNM_Digital_Raster_Graphics/MapServer/WMSServerlayers=0,1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23levels=24bbox=-180,90,180,-90srs=EPSG:102113>
> spherical_mercator=true
> tms_type=google
>
> The orthoimagery layer is available via this WMS (note: this is NAIP plus
> some higher resolution imagery):
>
> [naip]
> type=WMS url=
> http://isse.cr.usgs.gov/ArcGIS/services/Combined/SDDS_Imagery/MapServer/WMSServerlayers=0 levels=24 bbox=-180,90,180,-90 srs=EPSG:102113
> spherical_mercator=true tms_type=google
>
> The National Map is available via this WMS (Zoom levels 13+):
>
> [tnm] type=WMS #url=http://tnmdev.cr.usgs.gov/arcgis/services/TNM_Vector_Large/MapServer/WMSServer
> url=http://services.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/services/TNM_Vector_Large/MapServer/WMSServer
> layers=4,5,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,26,27,28,29,32,33,34,35,36,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,47,48,49,50,51,53,54,56,57,58,59
> levels=24 bbox=-180,90,180,-90 srs=EPSG:102113<http://tnmdev.cr.usgs.gov/arcgis/services/TNM_Vector_Large/MapServer/WMSServerurl=http://services.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/services/TNM_Vector_Large/MapServer/WMSServerlayers=4,5,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,26,27,28,29,32,33,34,35,36,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,47,48,49,50,51,53,54,56,57,58,59levels=24bbox=-180,90,180,-90srs=EPSG:102113>spherical_mercator=true tms_type=google
>
> You can also grab small scale National Map tiles directly (zoom 1-12):
>
>
> http://basemap.nationalmap.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services/TNM_Vector_Small/MapServer/tile/$z/$y/$x
>
> The WMS links are formatted for tilecache. I'm not sure what format JOSM
> prefers, but you can probably infer it. Note that you need to get the layer
> names (numbers) just right or you won't get a valid response from the
> server. And don't try to use EPSG:900913 even though the GetCapabilities
> says it works.
>
> One final thing: Do not trace roads from The National Map! Despite the
> normal license free status of USGS data, the roads in The National Map are
> currently licensed from TeleAtlas.
>
> -Eric Wolf
>
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> Eric B. Wolf                           720-334-7734
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com>wrote:
>
>> Good old usgs topographic maps are copyright free:
>> http://nationalmap.gov/ustopo/**faq.html<http://nationalmap.gov/ustopo/faq.html>
>>
>> And often a very useful reference when mapping, particularly in remote
>> areas.
>> I am aware of:
>> http://toposm.com/us/
>>
>> But is there a way to get USGS topographic slippymaps as a background in
>> JSOM?
>>
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