[OSM-talk] JOSM WMS plugin -> Capabilities / Layers

[David G. Smith PE PLS]

Currently for OSM editing, Merkaartor and QGIS support this type of OGC GetCapabilities request, parsing, user selection, and then dynamically building correct URL strings with the appropriate selected layer selection, EPSG SRS, et cetera but JOSM's WMS plugin does not yet support this.

For my part, I am happy using Merkaartor, but I know there are a lot of OSM mappers not on Windows platforms, as well as those who for other reasons, prefer JOSM.


David G. Smith PE PLS
Synergist Technology Group, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: andrzej zaborowski [mailto:balrogg at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 4:33 PM
To: David G. Smith PE PLS
Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM WMS plugin -> Capabilities / Layers

2010/1/21 David G. Smith PE PLS <dsmith at synergist-tech.com>
> In editing OSM, I have mainly been working with Merkaartor of late, 
> which has good support for WMS – in switching over and looking at JOSM 
> again, I was working with the WMS plugin and one thing I note there is 
> that it does not appear to have functionality for querying a server’s 
> capabilities (getCapabilities request) and then presenting the user 
> with a list of supported layers, SRS and so on – that functionality 
> would go quite far toward simplifying and facilitating connecting to 
> WMS services for users, as opposed to having to manually construct URL 
> strings and try to guess at what is going wrong when trying to access 
> new services…    Is anyone currently working on that functionality?  If so, how can others contribute to the effort?

A patch to to support getCapabilities was iirc submitted to the josm-dev mailing list once but I don't remember what happened with it.
 The only ticket I find now is

http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/3915

which seems unrelated, but the archives of the mailing list should have it.  I don't think it had a dialog to let you choose something but it might be a step if you want to implement the rest.

Cheers,