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 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
