Reporter: morb_au
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 7.24pm, Wednesday, 18th November 2009]

As per:
http://nearmap.lefora.com/2009/11/12/edit-the-map-instructions/page1/#post15793209

Can Nearmap be accommodated in Potlatch in a more integrated manner? For example, can it be added as one of the preset layer types like "OSM - Mapnik" or the "UK historic:"s (my own preference)? And/or can an extra URL parameter be added to Potlatch invocation so that Potlatch can be called with the Nearmap layer already chosen (johnsmith's preference)?

API details are in: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NearMap and/or http://nearmap.lefora.com/2009/11/18/integrating-imagery-in-web-applications/page1/#post15812262. Ben Last is probably the most authoritative source of info there.

I've decided to add a ticket for this so that "anyone" can contribute a patch and it's not just up to Richard.

If you use my preference (and the UK historic layers are a precedent here), here are some of the obvious places to make changes:

http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/editors/potlatch/potlatch.as > openOptionsWindow() > box.background.init() (line 1041), and var tileurls (line 151).

http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/sites/rails_port/config/potlatch/locales/en.yml (and other locales)