Id: Support more wms / wmts imagery

Created on 21 Feb 2018 · 7Comments · Source: openstreetmap/iD

Once #4814 gets merged, we should also support ELI sources of the wms_endpoint type like this one. The URLs are for getCapabilities requests on a WMS, which return a list of layers and sublayers.

In the iD interface, they could be shown as a folder, maybe with the icon.

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grischard

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Cool! I labelled as bluesky, but it #4633 might already contain a lot of the code needed. It's on my list of things to get to..

bhousel on 21 Feb 2018

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Cool! I labelled as bluesky, but it #4633 might already contain a lot of the code needed. It's on my list of things to get to..

bhousel on 21 Feb 2018

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If we're doing this, we should also support WMTS sources. https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/ImageryCompare shows that JOSM has about 100 that ELI doesn't have.

grischard on 4 Dec 2018

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has about 100 that ELI doesn't have.

Be careful comparing the datasets on count alone. Lots of the imagery in their in their index is stuff like people's hobby projects, like maps of scotland from the 1800s or whatever.

We also host a proxy on openstreetmap.us that may be able to proxy wmts? I don't know but @jonahadkins and @iandees would be able to say.

bhousel on 4 Dec 2018

Indeed, it's the wet finger approach, but those wmts entries tend to be catalogs of open data.

Yeah, mapproxy would be one way of doing it, but then we have no idea when another layer is added to the wmts. In general, it would be good to support those useful catalogs.

grischard on 4 Dec 2018

Be careful comparing the datasets on count alone. Lots of the imagery in their in their index is stuff like people's hobby projects, like maps of scotland from the 1800s or whatever.

To be more specific. Main imagery for Poland is no longer available as WMS, WMTS works ( Geoportal2 WMS is showing as white tiles 99,99% percent of time for some reason https://github.com/osmlab/editor-layer-index/pull/877 ).

As result primary and best imagery for Poland is inaccessible in iD/Vespucci but remains available in JOSM because it supports WMTS.

matkoniecz on 11 Aug 2020

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We have very good aerial photos from the geoportal available in Poland. Unfortunately, WMS works slowly and even ceases to be supported. Please support WMTS in iD, because it will enable easier and faster editing and will eliminate problems with using WMS.