Hi all,
I want to use the Heron Slippy Raster and Tiles component with a custom provider to retrieve aerial photographs. The providers I am keen to test are koordinates and LINZ. The links will take you to their API page for how the request needs to be formatted.
@Brian_Washburn, do you have any advice on how I can use the Heron plugin and achieve this? I noticed on the GitHub page that there is a HeronServiceEndpoints.json file with all the services listed - is it possible to amend this locally? I also noticed that the imagery is in EPSG:3857
Any advice would be greatly appreciated 
Hi @krishna.duddumpudi ,
There is currently not a way to edit the endpoints locally, but I’ve just made a Slippy Map Custom component that provides an input for custom slippy map URLs. I think it’s easier than editing a separate json file.
I’ll try to get this in the next release.
-Brian
Hi @krishna.duddumpudi ,
I’m currently having trouble uploading to the Yak servers so this is not available in the package manager yet, but the beta.3 version linked below includes the Slippy Raster Custom component.
Heron_v0.4.3-beta.3.zip
-Brian
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Hi @Brian_Washburn - Thank you so much for your quick response and for accommodating my request so quickly! I will give it a go on my side and report back
Kind regards,
Krishna
Hi @Brian_Washburn - the new custom component is working great, thanks for the update
Do you know how I can map the incoming tiles to real-world scale/coordinates so I can overlay it with vector data such as building outlines or plot boundaries from the same source?
We have been really struggling with this, the incoming tiles seem to be quite large and there seem to be no two reference points we can use to scale, orientate and overlay them.
Thanks again!
K
Hi @krishna.duddumpudi ,
Can you post the vector source you are looking to import? I generally try to avoid tile-based vector sources given larger elements get broken up at the tile borders and I don’t like trying to stitch them back together.
I noticed LINZ has some ArcGIS rest sources I found here:
https://linz.maps.arcgis.com/home/gallery.html?sortField=modified&sortOrder=desc
This is an example of using the RestVector component to tap into the building footprint source:
-Brian
