On Apr 13, 2013, at 5:55 AM, Chris Burrows <chris{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Robert Campbell asked me to forward this message to the BlackBox mailing
> list for him:
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> If I type the address "
http://a.tile.openstreetmap.org/17/64377/40836.png"
> into a web browser I get to see a 256 * 256 pixel bitmap (which happens to
> be a map of my house which I added myself this Christmas, but that is all
> irrelevant).
>
> How would I write a BlackBox program to fetch this tile, and either turn it
> into an internal BlackBox bitmap, or save it directly as a .png file.
>
> I do use the FreeImage subsystem, so can handle bitmaps and .png files
> within BlackBox, but I have no idea how to start on the internet stuff.
>
> Maybe the answer is in the Comm SubSystem, which I have used (a long time
> ago) to communicate PC to PC over ethernet and over the USB?
>
> Regards
>
> Robert
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