[Talk-ca] OSM Publicly available WMS server?

Hello All, I may have asked this question a while back, but does anyone know of a publicly available open street map web mapping service that I can connect a wms client to? I have seen some really interesting websites that have a OSM underlay and I am assuming this is done using WMS. In the

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM Publicly available WMS server?

Websites normally use TMS for backgrounds, not WMS. WMS is generally a lot slower than TMS. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WMS might help with finding a WMS server for OSM data. To make your own WMS server you could either use a program that turns tiles to WMS or renders directly to WMS.

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad?

Bonjour James, Really interesting suggestion! Actually, it is a natural step in data consideration : - First, you need data; - Then, you need information about the data! So, I will soon include metadata generation in the conversion process. A Metadata.txt file will be added to each .zip file.