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NickGiles

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« 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.

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« 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.
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« 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/

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« 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

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« 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.
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« 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
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« 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