On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:00 AM, David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've not been able to get Landsat backgrounds in JOSM in the last few days. > > Going to http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/ which is the site in the > preferences dialog, I see it says prominently: > > Due to server overloading, client applications are strongly > advised to use the existing tile datasets wherever possible, > as described in the Tiled WMS or Google Earth KML support > > Frequent and repetitive requests for non-cached, small WMS > tiles require an excessive amount of server resources and > will be blocked in order to preserve server functionality. > The OnEarth server is an experimental technology demonstrator > and does not have enough resources to support these requests. > An alternative solution already exists in the form of tiled WMS ... > > Is this the problem? > > Is my plugin and/or setting for where to get the data from out of date? > > If not would whoever did the WMS plugin care to look at this, or giv e > some pointers as to what to do. > > It looks like this is a permanent restriction. > > David >
OpenAerialMap uses landsat as a base also, and is usually quite reliable. If all you require is the landsat, there should be _few_ issues with the Google-based rectification that was brought up recently for a small number of image sources on OAM. http://wiki.openaerialmap.org/Using_With_OSM -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
