[Xastir-dev] [RFC] CalTopo tiles

[Curt, WE7U]

On Sat, 15 Dec 2012, Tom Hayward wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Tom Hayward <esarfl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm going to work on adding CalTopo tiles to Xastir. They work as-is
>> with the OSM code, but they are attributed to OSM :-) I'm planning to
>> rewrite some of the OSM code so that we can specify an attribution in
>> the .geo file, and also ensure that Xastir is sending an appropriate
>> user-agent and that Matt has that user-agent on file.
>
> Does anyone have an opinion about how I implement this? I think the
> most appropriate way will be:
>
> 1. rename map_OSM* to map_tile*
> 2. remove all references to "OSM" in the code
> 3. add attribution feature to .geo tile definition files
> 4. remove OSM attribution code; replace with attribution from .geo file
> 5. create CalTopo .geo file definition files
>
> My reasoning here is that raster tiles are not unique to OSM, so
> Xastir's raster tile implementation doesn't need to reference OSM
> anywhere but in a .geo tile definition file.

The above seems reasonable to me.  If I were tackling it I'd go through about the same sequence.

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