Creating Google Tiles with MapServer?

Bart van den Eijnden bartvde at GMAIL.COM
Tue Dec 18 14:30:49 EST 2007


Have a look at

1) TileCache,
http://www.tilecache.org

2) gdal2tiles:
http://www.gdal.org/gdal2tiles.html

Best regards,
Bart

On Dec 18, 2007 8:23 PM, Kirk Holbrook <kholbrook at gwi.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to create a cached base map from a large geographic area.
>
> The base map file on my MapServer contains about 100 GeoTIFFs of aorund
> 1GB each. And will be containing more in the near future.
>
> I want to tile the map at several scales for improving performance
> (although probably NOT at all scales!).
>
> It seems to me that using the Google Maps tiling scheme may be the best
> thing for long-term compatibility (who knows how I may want to use these
> later on).
>
> Does anyone have some code to slice and dice from MapServer to a local
> or server cache? I've seen bits and pieces scattered around, including
> tools to match up the maps, but most seem geared at smaller map sets. It
> would seem that Google Maps has an established Lat/Lon to x/y values for
> their tiles and that a tool like that would not be necessary coming from
> MapServer.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Kirk
>
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