[Openstreetmap] landsat background to the static renderer

[SteveC]

* @ 15/07/05 12:26:20 PM Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk wrote:
> Sorry if I didn't make myself clear - osm-editor also grabs the data from
> NASA over HTTP, so that feature's common, yet the trip from the OSM server
> to NASA and back seems much quicker than the trip from osm-editor on my box
> (over broadband) and back. Do you have a much faster connection than
> standard 1Mbps broadband?


There is no trip from the osm server to NASA, your browser goes to nasa
to get the image. So the speed of grabbing the image with your code
should be the same as your browser getting it.

Look in the html and you can see its just two images grabbed and
layered....

have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/