Add a vintage of the Esri World Imagery Wayback on JOSM

Hello everyone,

I’m interested in using some vintage Esri satellite imagery, which is possible with Esri’s World Imagery Wayback (World Imagery Wayback).

Deane Kensok’s diary, “Using Esri Wayback Imagery in OSM Editors” details this.

Following his diary I can get it to work on iD, but I can’t get it to work on JOSM (my favorite editor, which is on the latest version 19160).

I tried this with this imagery:

I get the following URL:

I tried to add it on JOSM like this:

But when I validate, I get the following error message:
image

org.openstreetmap.josm.data.imagery.WMTSTileSource$WMTSGetCapabilitiesException:
Error parsing WMTS capabilities document: ParseError at [row,col]:[1,1]
Message: Byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence invalid.

Does anyone understand this error message? Do you know how I could solve this problem?

Thanks in advance!

The solution was to add a TMS instead of a WMTS. And with TMS it works!

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