[patch] Geotiff as background layer

[dalkvist]

I have made a first version of geotiff support, it assumes that the (geo)tiff images are in the WGS84 projection.

Depends on the following libraries, from geotools (v2.6):
geoapi
gt-api
gt-covrage
gt-data
gt-epsg-hsql
gt-geotiff
gt-main
gt-metadata
gt-referencing
hsqldb
jai_codec
jai_core
jai_imageio

[stoecker]

Probably this is better done in WMS plugin? I don't like the geotools deps in main josm.

[stoecker]

Will you change this to be a part of WMS or an own plugin?

[stoecker]

Wont go into JOSM main. Leaving as new until made into a plugin.

[HamishB <hamish_b@…>]

would you consider it with a dependency on GDAL instead? (GDAL+OGR is the de facto gold standard, also supports almost every other geodata format out there, including Shapefiles)

​http://www.gdal.org/formats_list.html
​http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html

Setting up a localhost GeoServer instance for WMS support is absolutely no easy substitute for the average OSMer!

thanks,
Hamish

GRASS GIS/OSGeo/DebianGIS/GpsDrive dev teams

[HamishB <hamish_b@…>]

(for example, I have local aerial photos in GeoTIFF format which would be very useful to use, and last month we helped out with creating kml+geotiffs for the Chilean earthquake satellite extracts)

[HamishB <hamish_b@…>]

fyi, Merkaartor (plugin) support:

​http://www.mail-archive.com/merkaartor@openstreetmap.org/msg01833.html

[bastiK]

Could be added to piclayer plugin.