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 >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Geowanking mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Barry >>> >>> - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Geowanking mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > >
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