Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2010-01-02 Thread John Smith
2010/1/2 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/3983 I managed to get this to work, although I did it in slightly a lazy way in that you can't supply a completely custom URL, I just added a type option for custom URLs, so you could tell the system to send

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2010-01-01 Thread John Smith
2009/12/29 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: Actually, in addition to this, it would be great if you could allow the date to be specified in the path, i.e. allow us to make requests in the form of http://www.nearmap.com/maps/nmd/z/x/y.jpg (where nmd is the date) The problem is the slippymap

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2010-01-01 Thread John Smith
2010/1/2 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: 2009/12/29 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: Actually, in addition to this, it would be great if you could allow the date to be specified in the path, i.e. allow us to make requests in the form of http://www.nearmap.com/maps/nmd/z/x/y.jpg (where

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-12-29 Thread Ben Last
What is the URL format? If it's possible to change the hostname so that it points at our servers, and to set at least the first part of the path, I could see whether we can implement a custom URL parser for it (like we have for Potlatch). b 2009/12/23 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com On Mon,

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-12-29 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: Ok, I tried this myself and it doesn't work, seemingly because the slippymap plugin attempts to fetch tiles from url/*/*/*.jpg, rather than urlz=zx=xy=ynml=Vert. What is the URL format?  If it's possible to change the

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-12-29 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: Ok, I tried this myself and it doesn't work, seemingly because the slippymap plugin attempts to fetch tiles from url/*/*/*.jpg, rather than

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-12-29 Thread John Smith
2009/12/29 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: Actually, in addition to this, it would be great if you could allow the date to be specified in the path, i.e. allow us to make requests in the form of http://www.nearmap.com/maps/nmd/z/x/y.jpg (where nmd is the date) Doesn't need to be part of

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-12-29 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:44 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/29 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: Actually, in addition to this, it would be great if you could allow the date to be specified in the path, i.e. allow us to make requests in the form of

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-12-29 Thread John Smith
2009/12/29 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:44 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/29 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: Actually, in addition to this, it would be great if you could allow the date to be specified in the path, i.e. allow us to

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-12-22 Thread Roy Wallace
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:42 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: The problem I'm really trying to solve is with the slippymap plugin, because it is compiled and the URL isn't easily setable/changeable by a

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-12-13 Thread John Smith
Nearmap imagery for the 21st of Nov. has a lot of patchy cloud cover, can anyone think of a possible way to add a date field to the slippymap plugin to switch between older imagery rather than just using the most up to date? ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-12-13 Thread Ben Last
If you add an *nmd* parameter to the NearMap URLs with the date in MMDD format, you'll get the images for that date. To be exact, the date is a cutoff; you'll get the latest images with dates earlier than or equal to the date specified. Cheers Ben 2009/12/14 John Smith

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-12-13 Thread Roy Wallace
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:42 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: The problem I'm really trying to solve is with the slippymap plugin, because it is compiled and the URL isn't easily setable/changeable by a user, there is no options to tweak the URL in the plugin interface/settings

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-18 Thread David Dean
Michael, Can you please submit your patches to the slippymap plugin for NearMap to the JOSM trac at josm.openstreetmap.de (if you haven't already) so that the mainline slippymap plugin can handle NearMap without us having to download patched versions. Thanks, - David Michael-557 wrote: In

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-16 Thread ben last
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, John Smith wrote: Do you work for this company, or have a contact with them? Just so the list knows... I work for NearMap (as does Alex K), and I'm happy to respond to enquiries on the list. There are actually a few of us on various OSM forums and lists, but being a public

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-11 Thread John Smith
2009/11/12 Alex Kwiatkowski alex.kwiatkow...@nearmap.com: The day we flew Sydney there was a no fly zone in the CBD. Something to do with an important politician. We're aiming to have a complete Sydney survey up soon but I can't give you a firm ETA. That's one reason I don't live in Sydney any

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM - JOSM slippymap plugin

2009-11-10 Thread morb . gis
Quoting Michael spam...@gmx-ist-cool.de: Brendan, Brendan Morley wrote: Is there some way we can get this backported to -tested? JOSM r2405 has Please send me the version number of the slippymap plugin you are using and I will try to patch that version. The latest version of the plugin

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM - JOSM slippymap plugin

2009-11-10 Thread John Smith
2009/11/10 Michael spam...@gmx-ist-cool.de: The plugin happens to be just slightly above the message size limit for the mailing list. Rapidshare was just my first idea where I could quickly put it. Probably I should just get myself an account for the wiki and upload it there. I can host stuff

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM - JOSM slippymap plugin

2009-11-10 Thread Michael
John Smith wrote: I can host stuff like this, just email it to me off list. Thanks to John the plugins are now available in a more convenient location. The plugin for -latest is @ http://map-data.bigtincan.com/data/slippymap-latest.jar @ http://map-data.bigtincan.com/data/slippymap-tested.jar

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM - JOSM slippymap plugin

2009-11-10 Thread morb . gis
Quoting Michael spam...@gmx-ist-cool.de: John Smith wrote: I can host stuff like this, just email it to me off list. Thanks to John the plugins are now available in a more convenient location. The plugin for -latest is @ http://map-data.bigtincan.com/data/slippymap-latest.jar @

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-10 Thread John Smith
NearMap now has Melbourne imagery online... http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-37.793508,145.04837z=11t=h ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM - JOSM slippymap plugin

2009-11-09 Thread Brendan Morley
Michael, Is there some way we can get this backported to -tested? JOSM r2405 has two frustrating quirks for me in it (you can't add an additional download to your first download, and some ways become unselectable after you upload). r2255 was quite nice in comparison, except for the zoom

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM - JOSM slippymap plugin

2009-11-09 Thread Michael
Brendan, Brendan Morley wrote: Is there some way we can get this backported to -tested? JOSM r2405 has Please send me the version number of the slippymap plugin you are using and I will try to patch that version. The latest version of the plugin does not compile against -tested. My other

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-07 Thread John Smith
2009/11/6 Michael spam...@gmx-ist-cool.de: Attached is an updated patch that does not try to do the load balancing by itself and enables zoom levels up to 21. The corresponding download for -latest is @ http://rapidshare.com/files/303178932/slippymap.jar.html I'm not sure if it's because

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-07 Thread John Smith
2009/11/5 Peter Ross pe...@emailross.com: So for me source=nearmap is all that is needed. I've been thinking about this, if they're going to re-fly over cities, and judging by their existing WA imagery things on the images jump 1-2m in some cases, it might be useful to figure out the current

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-05 Thread Peter Ross
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Michael spam...@gmx-ist-cool.de wrote: John Smith wrote: I know it's not a WMS service, but that's what JOSM refers to it as, their WMS plugin can load OSM tiles in the same way. Nice. JOSM keeps learning new tricks all the time :-) In the meantime, I have

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-05 Thread David Dean
This pseudo-wms (or whatever we are calling it) doesn't appear to zoom in as far as the NearMap data allows. For example, this link: http://map-data.bigtincan.com/wms/nearmap.php?bbox=153.0113011,-27.4445217,153.0115373,-27.4443121srs=EPSG:4326width=500height=500 returns the right region, but

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-05 Thread John Smith
2009/11/6 David Dean dd...@ieee.org: You probably should also change the urls you grab the tiles from to   http://www.nearmap.com/maps/hl=enz=zx=xy=ynml=Vert Rather than the webN address so that they can load balance the requests if needed. The script I setup on BTC servers is load

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-05 Thread John Smith
I managed to bump it up to zoom level 22, after that nothing seems to be returned. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-05 Thread David Dean
So what happens if NearMap add more servers, or a server dies, or they change the names? You'd be better off using www and letting NearMap handle the load balancing. - David Bugzilla from deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/6 David Dean dd...@ieee.org: You probably should also change

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-05 Thread John Smith
2009/11/6 David Dean dd...@ieee.org: So what happens if NearMap add more servers, or a server dies, or they change the names? You'd be better off using www and letting NearMap handle the load balancing. OSM only has one tile server but they have 3 host names to trick browsers into downloading

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-04 Thread John Smith
2009/11/4 David Dean dd...@ieee.org: This looks awesome! I've added a page to the wiki at to start collecting information about how we can use this imagery: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NearMap_Aerial_Imagery Feel free to update it with any better details than what I've come up with

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-04 Thread John Smith
2009/11/4 James Andrewartha tr...@tartarus.uwa.edu.au: I think they use multiple aircraft - the cameras are housed in something they call the HyperPod that looks like it just attaches to a regular light airplane. They're not going to sell the HyperPod, just use it themselves. I wasn't looking

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-04 Thread James Andrewartha
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, John Smith wrote: 2009/11/4 James Andrewartha tr...@tartarus.uwa.edu.au: I couldn't say, but they might do it once for free (vs the regular updates planned for cities). For example, the WA coverage currently goes from Do you work for this company, or have a contact

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-04 Thread John Smith
2009/11/4 James Andrewartha tr...@tartarus.uwa.edu.au: Nope, I just read their presentations and website thoroughly and inferred their business model would support a single flyover as a hook to get commercial and government licenses which would pay for regular updates. If they have imagery

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-04 Thread John Smith
I posted a couple of wish list items to their forum. http://nearmap.lefora.com/forum/category/wish-list/page1/ ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au