Re: [josm-dev] [OSM-talk] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Thread Upliner
2010/12/2 David Murn > You are aware that accessing Bing images other than directly through > their API is against the licence? ie. you cannot make an external WMS > layer or rewriter, to give others access non-directly to the API. > > Of course, these restrictions is the main reason for using s

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-12-01 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-12-01 21:01, Alan Mintz wrote: 6. There is a road centerline benchmark that appears at 34.101866, -117.569148 +/- 0.6m in the USGS 0.3m imagery, and at 34.101874, -117.569162 +/- 0.14m in the Bing imagery - ~1.6m at 305 degrees away. This seems pretty well-aligned for our purposes. I've

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-12-01 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-12-01 00:20, =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Dirk_St=F6cker?= wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, andrzej zaborowski wrote: Dirk, I now modified the html file to query the Bing REST api as described by RichardF and display the logo and the imagery providers on every fourth tile (about every 1024 px down and acr

Re: [josm-dev] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Thread Russ Nelson
Stephan Knauss writes: > On 01.12.2010 12:26, Sebastian Klein wrote: > > thanks to fast development by Ian Dees, Bing imagery can now be used in > > JOSM. > > great job, thanks to Ian for the fast response. > > I really like the fast loading speed of the tiles compared to WMS > solutions

Re: [josm-dev] [OSM-talk] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On 12/01/2010 05:30 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: > A question, however: for WMS layers, would it be possible to automatically > change the resolution of the loaded tiles, in a way similar to the slippymap > tiles? Making this configurable rather than the only option would be a boon, since you

Re: [josm-dev] [OSM-talk] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
David, David Murn wrote: This is a scary thought. Does this mean the Bing licence has the same catch as the odbl licence, where 'we may change to any other licence in the future'? Is there any hope of the licence being decided upon and not being changed in the future? Certainly yes and cer

Re: [josm-dev] [OSM-talk] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
On Wednesday 01 December 2010 23:29:50 Upliner wrote: > Imagery plugin which combines wmsplugin and slippymap plugin is now > available. Yeah, it works. A question, however: for WMS layers, would it be possible to automatically change the resolution of the loaded tiles, in a way similar to the s

Re: [josm-dev] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Thread Stephan Knauss
On 01.12.2010 21:49, Stephan Knauss wrote: On 01.12.2010 12:26, Sebastian Klein wrote: I did not check the source code, but would I assume the position of the tiles is calculated. So adding an offset sounds not too difficult to implement. Upliner added this into "imagery". Works well for me. Co

Re: [josm-dev] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Thread Upliner
Imagery plugin which combines wmsplugin and slippymap plugin is now available. It's in experimental stage and there is some questions about future of these plugins, however tracing the Bing imagery with offset correction seems to work well. -- Best regards, Upliner ___

Re: [josm-dev] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Thread Stephan Knauss
On 01.12.2010 12:26, Sebastian Klein wrote: thanks to fast development by Ian Dees, Bing imagery can now be used in JOSM. great job, thanks to Ian for the fast response. I really like the fast loading speed of the tiles compared to WMS solutions. In contrast to the WMS I miss the possibility

Re: [josm-dev] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Thread Upliner
I've committed an alpha version of the plugin to SVN. Currently it uses wmsplugin icons so it could be quite confusing when used with wmsplugin. When this issue is solved and some more testing is done, one will may publish a jar. 2010/12/1 Sebastian Klein > Upliner wrote: > >> Hello all. >> >> I

Re: [josm-dev] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Thread Sebastian Klein
Upliner wrote: Hello all. I'm currently working on combination of wmsplugin and slippymap plugin. It would be called "imagery" plugin and I plan to publish the first version within next several hours. This is great news - hopefully we'll see even more improvements. :) Sebastian _

Re: [josm-dev] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Thread Upliner
Hello all. I'm currently working on combination of wmsplugin and slippymap plugin. It would be called "imagery" plugin and I plan to publish the first version within next several hours. 2010/12/1 Viesturs Zariņš > What about offset correction? > This is pretty important in some areas. > > -- B

Re: [josm-dev] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Thread Viesturs Zariņš
What about offset correction? This is pretty important in some areas. Viesturs On 2010.12.01. 13:26, Sebastian Klein wrote: Hi, thanks to fast development by Ian Dees, Bing imagery can now be used in JOSM. You'll need the latest version of josm (3688) ( http://josm.openstreetmap.de/downloa

[josm-dev] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Thread Sebastian Klein
Hi, thanks to fast development by Ian Dees, Bing imagery can now be used in JOSM. You'll need the latest version of josm (3688) ( http://josm.openstreetmap.de/download/josm-snapshot-3688.jar ) and an updated version of the slippy map plugin. Then go to Preferences (F12) > Slippy map and cho

Re: [josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

2010-12-01 Thread Dirk Stöcker
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, andrzej zaborowski wrote: Dirk, I now modified the html file to query the Bing REST api as described by RichardF and display the logo and the imagery providers on every fourth tile (about every 1024 px down and across). The only thing is that the logo is not clickable, obvio