Thanks so much for the tons of very useful links and responses, incredible !

(And in fact I WAS wondering about the difference between a super-overlay
and an image pyramid; in the book they are treated somewhat differently, the
former being more applicable to photos?)

Markus

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:11 PM, sophia parafina <[email protected]>wrote:

> pyramid tutorial using gdal:
> http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/2009/11/preparing-pyramid-for-geoserver-with.html
>
> sophia
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Joshua Lieberman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> http://code.google.com/apis/kml/articles/raster.html note that super
>> overlays are directory-based pyramids, not the one-file approach that GDAL
>> can also support.
>>
>> Josh
>>
>>
>> On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Barry Hunter wrote:
>>
>>  In KML parlance, they are often known "SuperOverlays". So a search on
>>> that term should be more fruitful
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/regions.html#superoverlays
>>>
>>> "Regionator" is another term to try searching
>>>
>>>
>>> On 23/11/2009, Markus Loecher <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear kml creators,
>>>> In "The KML Handbook" (Josie Wernecke), the image pyramid is described
>>>> as a
>>>> very convenient multi-scale view of an image, which elegantly integrates
>>>> with kml files.
>>>> Unfortunately, no real pointer towards software that performs this task
>>>> on a
>>>> given image file is provided (Figure 5-14 caption: "Search the web for
>>>> software tools that can create this image pyramid for you") and a Web
>>>> search
>>>> yielded no real results.
>>>> Does anyone have or know about software that partitions an image into
>>>> quadtree-like tiles ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>> Markus
>>>>
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