[OpenLayers-Dev] Creating own baselayer

[Julien-Samuel Lacroix]

Hi,

I think you will need a server-side application to build a your tiles 
from the tiff+mid/mif data. If you already have your tiles, you could 
arrange them in a way that looks like the end result of TileCache [1].

Otherwise, I suggest you to use MapServer [2] or GeoServer [3] to build 
your maps.

Note that if you can't run MapServer/GeoServer on your production server 
and the number of tiles you generate is fairly small, you could build 
the cache on your development machine and upload them to the server.

[1] http://tilecache.org/
[2] http://www.mapserver.org/
[3] http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Welcome

Julien

fitz5487 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have created an openlayers application using google maps as the baselayer,
> however, the organisation I am working for require me to use ordinance
> survey maps which are currently in .tiff format, along with the accompanying
> mid/mif files. There are tiles for 3 different zoom layers. Is there anyway
> of using these tiles directly in openlayers, or is this going to be a much
> more complicated proceedure. I have seen that I may need to use a WMS but my
> facilities are very limited, and I woundnt have though I will be able to use
> java or python in this project.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea, or any relevant literature they can point me
> towards? I would be much obliged.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Lee   

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