[mapserver-users] can mapserver stitch together maps?

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Fri May 16 17:45:02 EDT 2008


On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 02:29:02PM -0700, Wendell Turner wrote:
> I'm using gdal utilities to split up a GeoTIFF to make tiles
> of a map, and OpenLayers to display it.  That works fine for
> one map.  I have many maps, and the left edge of one is the
> right edge of the next; also the bottom edge of one is the
> top edge of another, etc.
> 
> Q: does mapserver handle this?  

Yes, via tileindexes.

> Is that what the .xml file defines?  

I'm not aware of any .xml files used in MapServer.

> Is there an example/recipe showing this?

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/raster_data/#rasters-and-tile-indexing

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta


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