[OSM-talk] VMap0

[Nick Black]

Meant to send to the list incase anyone else can use it:

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From: Nick Black <nickblack1 at gmail.com>
Date: Jul 8, 2006 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] VMap0
To: Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at crschmidt.net>


Chris - I have a 50m resolution shapefile mask of the British Isles
derived from SRTM data and I have acces to the original raster (600mb)
mask.  Let me know you want to use it.

Nick

On 7/7/06, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at crschmidt.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:37:43AM +0200, Immanuel Scholz wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > VMap0 rendering now available as a seperate layer. To see a demo of the
> > > area in question:
> >
> > that's cool! :-)
> >
> > uhm.... but... I mapped this area at IoW contest:
> > http://london.freemap.in/osm.html?lat=6538458.78125&lon=-158412.375&zoom=11
>
> > Now switch to new vmap0... I remember well, that I did NOT drove over
> > water! ;-)
>
> Sure. VMap0 data is meant to be used when mapping 1:1000000 -- that map
> is 1:40000. Mapping at 20 times the resolution of the underlying data is
> naturally going to lead to some errors. If you have another attractive
> public domain vector basemap that you'd like me to use, I'd gladly use
> it ;) Otherwise, the satellite layer is always available.
>
> > PS: Is the vmap0 somewhere available as a WMS layer server? If I include
> > background images in JOSM, I like to use this as default instead of the
> > landsat pictures. I think it's much cleaner..
>
> Yep:
> http://labs.metacarta.com/wms/vmap0?request=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=WMS
> is used as the free 'baselayer' in OpenLayers, and will be maintained by
> MetaCarta into the forseeable future.
>
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> Web Developer
>
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