Just upload to commons. There is a Gadget "ZoomViewer" which uses the toolserver to generate multiresolution pyramids (like tiles) and display it using either flash [1] or JavaScript [2]. Daniel
[1] http://toolserver.org/~dschwen/iip/wip.php?f=Chicago.jpg [2] http://toolserver.org/~dschwen/iip/wip.php?f=Chicago.jpg&flash=no On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > I just learned that two very nice sets of old, out-of-copyright Swedish maps > have been made freely available. Maybe they have already been around for a > while, but I just learned this now. One set is the topographic map > (popularly > called Generalstabskartan) in scale 1:100,000 for southern and 1:200,000 for > northern Sweden. The other is the economic map (Häradskartor) in more > detail. > > These maps have long ago been digitized by the Swedish ordnance survey > (Lantmäteriet), but they don't allow downloading and reuse. Now, however, > they have been (digitized again? and) made freely available by Stockholm > University library, > http://kartavdelningen.sub.su.se/kartrummet/kartskapet.htm > > The maps are scanned in 600 dpi and are available in TIFF and JPEG. Some > have also been geo referenced and have TFW and KML files for download. > > Can we somehow get these huge bitmap images into a tileserver? They need of > course be stretched to fit the coordinates, and the borders and overlaps > need to be aligned. What tools are available for that? Would WMF support > and host this? Would OSM? If someone can do this for a fee, maybe the > Swedish chapter can find the money. > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > > > _______________________________________________ > Maps-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l _______________________________________________ Maps-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l
