[OpenLayers-Users] GDAL2Tiles

[Bjorn Sandvik]

Wow - it works!
http://www.thematicmapping.org/openlayers/fullscreen.htm

Thanks a lot! OpenLayers keeps impressing me.
And, I'm often very confused ;-)

Bjorn

http://blog.thematicmapping.org



Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 07:54:20PM +0100, Bjorn Sandvik wrote:
>   
>> This is the code generated by gdal2tiles: 
>> http://www.thematicmapping.org/maptiles/naturalearth/openlayers.html
>> Only pixel based view is supported, which makes is difficult to combine 
>> map tiles with other data layers.
>>     
>
> I saw this same thing mentioned in some blog posting somewhere, and I
> thought "huh, someone is confused": in fact, this lines up exactly with
> the TMS spec, and can be used with practically no changes by the default
> TMS layer:
>
> http://crschmidt.net/mapping/naturalearth.html
>  
>  You just need to specify a serviceVersion of '.' .  (This is pulled
>  almost exactly from the TMS example that ships with OpenLayers.)
>
>   
>> Is there an alternative way of loading map tiles? 
>>     
>
> Other than the TMS layer?
>
>   
>> Or is there a better alternative to gdal2tiles?
>>     
>
> None needed, so far as I can tell.
>
> Regards,
>   


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