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

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Saturday 21 October 2006 11:32, Nick Whitelegg 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?
>
> 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.

I think this would make sense if you have a local cache for these already 
downloaded images and if you can switch the feature on/on while working and 
without restarting josm.

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Joerg