[Tilecache] Advice needed for displaying multiple images

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Thu May 14 07:54:05 EDT 2009


On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 01:27:19PM +0200, Enrico Sartorello wrote:
> Hi all,
> i'm a beginner of TileCache, and currently i'm trying to explore that
> software and its features.
> What i wanna try to do now, is displaying something like a poster made up of
> multiple images.
> 
> Let's say i have a huge picture made up of 100 images: what's the correct
> (and optimized) way to do manage this issue?
> Do i have to create a unique image and add it as an ImageLayer? Do i have to
> use multiple ImageLayers correctly placed?

TileCache really doesn't have support for this. I'd recommend:
 * Giving your images some geo data in pixel space
 * putting them in a MapServer TileIndex.
 * Putting TileCache in front of that, if you need to.
 
-- Chris

> Thanks for your answers, i hope i've been clear enough.
> 
> -- 
> Enrico Sartorello

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