[OSM-talk] Tile layer in JOSM

Martijn van Exel m at rtijn.org
Mon Nov 28 22:30:50 GMT 2011


On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 11/28/2011 07:10 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
>>
>> * Publish the shapefile as a WMS through GeoServer[3].
>
> Why not leave it at that and access the WMS directly from JOSM? Potlatch
> requires tiles but since you only seem to want to use JOSM, you can have
> JOSM talk to your WMS directly, without MapProxy & all.
>

Mainly because a WMS layer is less convenient to use. You have to
manually change resolutions and it's much slower.
The other, much more important reason is that I want to know how to do
this right.

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