[OSM-talk] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 1 December 2010 13:53, Jo <winfixit en gmail.com> wrote:
> It works great, a bit odd that it's not under WMS that the source needs to
> be added, but I managed to get it to work.

Instead of slippmymap plugin you can use (although it's much slower)
the wmsplugin with the following url:

html:http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wmsplugin/VirtualEarthSat.html?

This lets you move the imagery if there's an offset, and you can also
download the file to your .josm directory and use it locally.  You can
then hardcode an offset in the file so you don't have to do it every
time (there's an example commented out in the file).

As a band-aid I'm thinking of just hardcoding inside that file the
offsets for cities that are already known.  Another idea is hosting a
simple text file containing all the offsets on a site like
collabedit.com so that everyone can edit it.  The html file could just
load the file with the offsets dynamically.  Unfortunately collabedit
is way too slow for anything like that.

>
> So now i'm mapping all those rivers/streams and the landuses that are almost
> impossible to accomplish otherwise. Should I add source tags to all the
> elements I'm tracing from Bing imagery? What about the landuses that I'm
> modifying? Is the source mixed then?

The source tag is a form of documenting what precision can be
expected, so probably common sense applies, there isn't a good rule.

Cheers