[Gdal-dev] Burning text into GeoTiffs?

[Ethan Alpert]

I'm actually now considering mapscript with the gdal api for an
all-in-one solution. I'll post any solution I come up with.

-e

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed McNierney [mailto:ed at topozone.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:45 AM
To: Ethan Alpert; gdal-dev at lists.maptools.org
Subject: RE: [Gdal-dev] Burning text into GeoTiffs?


Ethan -

Depending on how complex you need things to be, that would work fine -
you could also use MapServer to do all kinds of "annotations" and then
create GeoTIFF output.  You could do that through the mapserv CGI or
using shp2img.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242  

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:gdal-dev-bounces at lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of Ethan Alpert
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 12:21 PM
To: gdal-dev at lists.maptools.org
Subject: [Gdal-dev] Burning text into GeoTiffs?


Anyone have any suggestions for writing text into GeoTiffs? 

I'm considering using imagemagik to create a image with just the text
and transparent everywhere else then gdal_translate translate to add
gcps and gdalwarp to overlay the text on the output GeoTiff. 

Are there any other approaches? 

-e

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