[OSM-talk] Landsat WMS in JOSM

Thomas Wood grand.edgemaster at gmail.com
Mon Jun 23 20:37:30 BST 2008


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:00 AM, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> I've not been able to get Landsat backgrounds in JOSM in the last few days.
>
> Going to http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/ which is the site in the
> preferences dialog, I see it says prominently:
>
>    Due to server overloading, client applications are strongly
>    advised to use the existing tile datasets wherever possible,
>    as described in the Tiled WMS or Google Earth KML support
>
>    Frequent and repetitive requests for non-cached, small WMS
>    tiles require an excessive amount of server resources and
>    will be blocked in order to preserve server functionality.
>    The OnEarth server is an experimental technology demonstrator
>    and does not have enough resources to support these requests.
>    An alternative solution already exists in the form of tiled WMS ...
>
> Is this the problem?
>
> Is my plugin and/or setting for where to get the data from out of date?
>
> If not would whoever did the WMS plugin care to look at this, or giv e
> some pointers as to what to do.
>
> It looks like this is a permanent restriction.
>
> David
>

OpenAerialMap uses landsat as a base also, and is usually quite
reliable. If all you require is the landsat, there should be _few_
issues with the Google-based rectification that was brought up
recently for a small number of image sources on OAM.
http://wiki.openaerialmap.org/Using_With_OSM

-- 
Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)




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