Add other maps source

[DGrv]

Hi,

I did not look in detail your code, I have in all case not enough knowledge in this to understand everything.
I really appreciate your work and your tool. I am also French so I totally understand the need of this with the IGN. Actually I am leaving in Germany and I would also like to use it, however the maps are not really satisfying my need, you would understand.

So I come to my question, is it possible to implement other maps ? and how ? (OpenTopo, for example, or Kompass eventually - but may not be allowed).

Thanks

[tmuguet]

Hi,

Thanks for your interest!

There are three reasons I am currently using IGN services: displaying the maps, computing routes and retrieving additional data (altitude, slopes, etc.):

• Displaying other maps would be possible and fairly straight-forward.
• Routing would require additional services, like GraphHopper, which is not easily doable currently.
• Some additional data may not be available (slopes for instance).

I am currently heavily refactoring the code, which should allow me to add other services more easily later. I expect to finish my refactoring in November, so maybe in December 2018 I'll have some time to fully tackle this issue.

[DGrv]

Sound great :) Thanks.
What do you need to implement new maps ? a simple url tile is sufficient ?
If I can help tell me.

[tmuguet]

For new maps, I'll check myself the APIs/tile URLs and licenses, this is really the easy part :)
You mentioned OpenTopoMap, which seems great. I am not sure what data Kompass uses, it seems proprietary. I was also thinking of MapBox, which is free for small traffic. If you have any other service in mind, I'll be glad to have a look at them.

[DGrv]

I usually use :

• Hillshading http://c.tiles.wmflabs.org/hillshading/{2}/{0}/{1}.png
• Austria Topographie https://w{3}.outdooractive.com/map/v1/raster/topo_bev/{2}/{0}/{1}/t.png?project=alpenverein
• SwissTopo (Geoadmin) which have incredible maps and data https://w{3}.outdooractive.com/map/v1/raster/topo_swisstopo/{2}/{0}/{1}/t.png?project=alpenverein
  - Example used by a swiss website for skitouring or hiking, combining all layers usefull https://www.gipfelbuch.ch/gipfelbuch/detail/id/98104/Alpine_Wanderung/Morgenberghorn
• Slope from outdooractive https://s{3}.outdooractive.com/map/xGradient/{2}/{0}/{1}.png?project=alpenverein
• Kompass http://ec{3}.cdn.ecmaps.de/WmsGateway.ashx.jpg?Experience=kompass&MapStyle=KOMPASS%20Touristik&TileX={0}&TileY={1}&ZoomLevel={2}
• OenTopoMap https://a.tile.opentopomap.org/{2}/{0}/{1}.png
• OpenCyclemap http://a.tile.thunderforest.com/cycle/{2}/{0}/{1}.png

For the rights, I expect Kompass, Austria Topographie and SwissTopo to certainly give problems.

[tmuguet]

Hi,

Sorry for the delay, I was really busy with my day job, but I have some good news for you :)
I managed to get to a state where the new version is ready for some testing at http://map2gpx.eu/. So far, I have added maps from OpenCycleMap, OpenTopoMap, Hike&Bike and Hillshading.

I will look into the licenses of the other layers once I'm done with adding undo/redo capability and I have more thoroughly tested and documented the app.

[DGrv]

Hi,

Great. This is really nice.
I tested what I could and did not see bugs.

Do you wanna stay with the eu and fr separated or plan to merge them at one point.

Thanks a lot :)

[tmuguet]

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback!
For now I did not found a nice way to merge them, so both websites will coexist.