Map layers in Merkaartor

Posted by EMKLI on 19 July 2017 in English.

Hi there!

Due to the fact that I’m on the road and only have my “hacked” armv7h Chromebook with Arch Linux with me, I came to use Merkaartor a little bit because the JRE became horribly slow on the Chromebook these days and JOSM is almost unusable. I quite like Merkaartor. It’s much more simpler and less featured than JOSM, however, it has the really useful feature of building parallel lines in one step (a.k.a. two lane roads).

However, the URL’s from the FAQ to display the map layers in JOSM don’t work for Merkaartor. Does anybody else work with Merkaartor and/or have an Idea of how to display the OGF map layers in it?

Greetings, Markus

Discussion

Comment from martinum4 on 19 July 2017 at 23:39

Hey there fellow Arch-User ;)

I looked at the bug tracker and apparently one can add different imagery via TMS/WMS, but I don’t know where they are configured. Does it include the OSM-Default-Style which you could just adjust to your needs?

Comment from Jōvīst on 20 July 2017 at 22:21

Hi!

I have managed to get Merkaartor working with OGF after a little bit of initial struggling.

Going to Tools -> Preferences, then the Data tab enter http://opengeofiction.net/api/0.6 as the URL and your user name and password as on the website.

For the TMS servers there isn’t much magic to it really. Go to Tools -> TMS Servers Editor and add the ones you want (Default url is http://tile.opengeofiction.net/osmcarto/%1/%2/%3.png). I had some trouble with the program keeping the variables and had to edit the configuration file by hand.

I hope this works for you!

Comment from EMKLI on 9 August 2017 at 19:51

Thanks, that did the trick for me!

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