Author Topic: Non-US Mapping (Read 6492 times)

NickGiles · « **on:** July 25, 2008, 02:26:31 PM »

As an Australian, who also travels a fair bit in Europe I'm obviously keen to see the map coverage improve. Love the product and the Landsat imaging, but some topo mapping would be great.

Regards, Nick

ScottMorris · « **Reply #1 on:** July 27, 2008, 01:17:31 PM »

Yep - would love to find a public server with Ozi maps, but don't know of one yet. We have some simulation projects that would find them useful.

NickGiles · « **Reply #2 on:** July 31, 2008, 04:45:38 AM »

Geoscience Australia is the government owned mapping bureau. They have a 1:250k scale topo product which can be viewed online, but not sure whether there is 'server' related access. You can see it at http://www.ga.gov.au/mapconnect/

Rgds, Nick

NickGiles · « **Reply #3 on:** July 31, 2008, 04:57:27 AM »

Found something that may be more useful on the same site:

The MapConnect web map can be accessed as a Web Map Service (WMS). WMS is an Open Source standard protocol that produces a map image (GIF, PNG or other format) from a set of simple URL text requests.

http://www.ga.gov.au/mapconnect/wms.jsp

ScottMorris · « **Reply #4 on:** July 31, 2008, 01:33:47 PM »

Awesome, this looks very likely to work for TF's purposes. Thanks much for the link!

I will experiment with it and see if we can get it rolling.

ScottMorris · « **Reply #5 on:** August 15, 2008, 11:44:04 AM »

Support for that server is now available in v3.41 -- the latest beta.

See the beta forum for details:

http://tinyurl.com/35z3e6

NickGiles · « **Reply #6 on:** August 30, 2008, 05:09:05 AM »

Downloaded the new version today. Works great - glad to see it was a relatively straight forward enhancement.

Cheers, Nick