I knew about the max zoom setting but for some reason never thought about applying it to the TIGER tiles to fix the grey....
Toby On Sep 21, 2012 1:23 PM, "Alan Millar" <grunthos...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Maybe everyone else knows this, but I just discovered it myself so I > thought I would share it. > > I've been using Remap-a-tron to fix up US roads. I use both the Bing > imagery and the TIGER 2012 tiles overlaid, and it makes it really > useful. > > However, I've been frustrated that I can pretty far in with the Bing > images, but if I go too far, the Tiger (normally transparent) tiles turn > grey and obscure the Bing images. I've been continually turning off and > back on the Tiger layer, which is a bit annoying after a while. > > JOSM has an easy limit in the Preferences for the maximum zoom, but it > affects everything. I set it to 19, and then I did not get the grey > boxes from Tiger, but did not get the higher detailed photos from Bing > either. > > As it turns out, JOSM does have a max-zoom per tile server feature; it > just is not obvious or clearly documented that I could find. > > You can enter it as part of the TMS url like this: > > tms[19]:http://{switch:a,b,c}. > tile.openstreetmap.us/tiger2012_roads/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png > > The number 19, right up front, says that the maximum zoom to use for > this layer is 19. This solved the whole thing for me. > > I also found that if you go into Josm preferences in expert mode, and > dig and dig and dig into the imagery providers entries, this is labeled > as max-zoom. Too bad it isn't easier to find. > > Anyways, hope this helps others too. > > - Alan > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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