[OSM-talk] JOSM landsat plugin... do people want a 'slippy' style interface?

[SteveC]

* @ 21/10/06 10:32:44 AM nick at hogweed.org wrote:
> 
> Yesterday Steve suggested that the Landsat plugin might be better if it 
> adopted a slippy approach, i.e. as you move round the map, data automatically 
> gets downloaded when you move into new areas. Or are people happy with the 
> current approach of manually downloading data? 

Or, whether or not it grabbed data on the fly as you moved, it should
grab the images in a defined tiling system so that a cache can be used.

> 
> If I remember right the slippy approach had some difficulties fitting round 
> the internal architecture of JOSM so it would be quite a big job... hence I 
> would only intend to do it if there was a big demand for it.
> 
> Whatever the case I aim to restore the feature in my hacked (pre-plugin) 
> version of JOSM where you could download more than one landsat layer in and 
> select between them.
> 
> Nick
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have fun,

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