[OSM-talk] Subject: JOSM and Yahoo Imagery

[Nick Burch]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> It is a difficult topic as current agreements seem to allow only access 
> through their JavaScript API which cannot be directly controlled from 
> within a Java application.

Java 1.6 has a javascript runtime built in. Has anyone had a chance to 
play with it? (I was thinking we could use it to load the yahoo js, 
provide override the image display functions, and use this to grab the 
images. However, I don't know if that sort of thing is possible with the 
Java 1.6 JS stuff)

> People have said that these restrictions do not hold for the editor 
> applet, which somehow loads the images directly; if that is true

Yahoo want us to use the javascript, and not call the images directly. 
However, to get something working, they said we could access the tiles 
from the applet directly. As I understand it, that's with the assumption 
that we will start using the javascript from the applet ASAP, and won't 
have anything else using the images directly - any futher uses will all 
use the javascript.

Mikel - have I remembered the above correctly?

Nick