[OSM-talk] Italian Government approved the use of official data for OpenStreetMap updates

[Richard Fairhurst]

Simone Cortesi wrote:

> We are still dealing out on how to use this thru editors which do  
> not make use of WMS access to imagery.
>
> Will potlatch or mapzen get WMS anytime soon?

Potlatch 1 will never have WMS support. Spherical Mercator is  
sufficiently hardwired into the code that supporting arbitrary WMS  
projections would be pretty much impossible. If the WMS server  
supported spherical Mercator I guess it'd be possible but it's not  
something I'm planning to do.

Potlatch 2 is a bit more projection-indepedent so could be made to  
support WMS in due course. It's not a priority for me because all the  
cool imagery is already in 900913 tiles. But  
http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/editors/potlatch2/ awaits  
your contributions!

IIRC there was some software released recently that will reproject  
nasty WMS to lovely 900913 tiles on the fly - sorry, can't remember  
the name but I’m sure someone here will. You could perhaps set this up  
on the dev server or similar. That'd be the fastest way of getting it  
into Potlatch.

The imagery sounds very cool.

cheers
Richard