Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>Sent: 12 February 2008 9:55 AM
>To: talk@openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] Background layers in Potlatch
>
>Hello all,
>
>You can now choose from several background layers in Potlatch.
>
>Go to the options window (the little "tick" near the bottom left), and
>you'll see that the pop-up menu which used to offer only 'Yahoo' and
>'None' now offers:
>
>- OpenAerialMap
>- Yahoo
>- Mapnik
>- Osmarender
>- Maplint
>
>OpenAerialMap is likely to be particularly useful. Not just because
>it's a great project in itself, but also because it uses the same
>low-res Landsat imagery as Yahoo - but enlarges it when you zoom in.
>So if you want to trace over enlarged Landsat, use this to replace the
>old Flash Player zoom.
>
>(If anyone else has spherical Mercator GMaps-like tilesets that might
>work as a background image, let me know.)
>
>Thanks to Christopher and Jon for configuring their servers (OAM/tah
>and tile respectively) so Potlatch can do this.
>
>cheers
>Richard

Cool stuff Richard :-)

Cheers

Andy


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