Hi Scott,
I am back in Europe for a month and I again stuck with the Landsat as the only map server that Topofusion supports. I managed to get one local WMS server to work - though it only loads the aerials, not topo maps. I found trying to put the custom WMS server in quite cumbersome - not your fault though - it's more a documentation issue on the WMS servers side. With that, I have a few ideas for you to entertain.
1. Finding the layers and other features on the WMS servers is a pain if it's not documented (and the ones that I found are not documented). It'd be good if Topofusion's Custom WMS Servers dialog could query the server's GetCapabilities (e.g. by allowing user to paste in the link from
http://www.ogc-services.net/) and interpret them in some sensible way (e.g. list available layers).
2. OpenStreetMap WMS additon would be great. There seems to be a group in Germany that runs one server,
http://www.osm-wms.de/, though, with my limited knowledge of WMS I could not get it to work. I am sure many people outside US/Can/Aus would appreciate that.
3
. Finally, we discussed this last year but I am back at it again - it'd be nice to be able to select any tile set for Photofusion. I know there's problem with different extent of the tiles in diferent tilesets, perhaps in that case you could have user to choose just single tile set (e.g. color aerials) instead of the two (topo, b/w aerials) as now?
Guess that's it for now, take care
MC
