AH! Maybe you are talking about PhotoOverlays, sorry! http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/photos.html
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/photos.html#imagepyramid Try: http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/software/photooverlaycreator.asp I've used that a couple of times. Not read KML Handbook, so just jumped to the conclusion would be referring to SuperOverlays, which are different. On 23/11/2009, Markus Loecher <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
