[OSM-talk] Local WMS server?

[OJW]

Related question: is there a service anywhere which provides the landsat data 
as slippy-map tiles?  The NASA page says not to download too much directly 
from their WMS because of bandwidth.



On Sunday 04 November 2007 23:02:24 Gervase Markham wrote:
> 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
>
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