[OSM-talk] Local WMS server?

[Gervase Markham]

I want to go out mapping using the Surveyor plugin and LiveGPS, both of 
which I now have working. However, it would be very helpful in terms of 
planning the route and making sure we'd covered roads if, as I was going 
along, I could have the NPE maps or other WMS imagery in the background.

However, as far as I can tell, JOSM doesn't really have features to 
store downloaded WMS imagery between invocations. (So I'd need to 
download it all before we started and hope JOSM didn't crash.)

Is this true? If so, is there another option, like running my own local 
WMS server? I don't know much about it, but my naive assumption is that 
a personal WMS server would be a directory full of correctly-named 
images, a copy of Apache and a fairly simple Perl script. Is that right?

Gerv