[OpenLayers-Users] [work] Best Practise (newb)

[Tara Athan]

Georeferencing is available in QGIS 0.90 as a plugin.
Tara

pawprint_net wrote:
> I've just spent the last 4 days getting a handle on using OpenLayers (and
> learning a LOT about GIS in general) - so to all the Developers out there a
> hearty - Well done - your ROCK! 
>
> I am stuck on my final step of implementing this for several web sites and
> would appreciate any advice those in "the know" can offer:
>
> 1) I need to find the best way to add a JPEG map (produced elsewhere) that
> is NOT georeferenced yet to be an overlay layer for OpenLayers - hopefully
> via TMS as the map is street level of a region. I expect that I need to:   
> a) Georeference it (best way to do that? I have many known LatLon points on
> the map)
> b) Save it in a friendly format (gtiff ?)
> c) Tile it (tried gdal2tiles - but not sure how to control the output
> resolutions to match my base layer VMAP0)
> d) Upload it to the web server as a TMS (I want to be able to serve it
> WITHOUT Mapserver)
>
> I have gone ahead and installed MapServer 5 on my dev server in the hopes I
> could add it that way (via a WMS layer and then pull off the tiles) but I
> still need to georeference it and Find the extents (no idea how to do this
> for a raster gdalinfo doesn't seem to give them the way orginfo does and
> everything online seems to be about the later)
>
> I have access to QGIS, ArcView, MapServer, FWTools, and extensive PHP
> programming knowledge
>
> I tried for about half a day to get TileCache to work (having read that is a
> good way to do the tiling) but my web server really doesn't seem to like
> Python so I'm hoping there is some other way.
>
> Any advice much appreciated - I can make several people very happy if I can
> get this working.
>   


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Tara Athan
Principal, Alternatives to Invasive Species
tara_athan at alt2is.com
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