Hi Hendrick, Sean's answer covers all the main aspects you may face using OL with non-geo images. I would only add that gdal2tiles [1] makes extremely easy to build tiled pyramids for large images and their corresponding OpenLayers based viewers, like this one:
http://amercader.net/books.html You may give it a look a see if it can help you. Cheers, Adrià [1] http://www.klokan.cz/projects/gdal2tiles/ Sean a On 24 September 2010 10:31, Hendrik Fuß <hendrik.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm sorry if you receive this as a duplicate post -- I've had some > problems subscribing to the list, so I'm not sure whether my initial > post got through or not. > > I'd be interested in your opinions on the following: I am planning to > develop a web application that is not exactly about geographical data, > but on a technical level has a lot in common with OpenLayers, so I'm > wondering whether I could 'abuse' OpenLayers for the task. > > The application is essentially about sharing and markup of large, > microscopic images. It allow users to upload such images for others to > view. Viewers should be able to zoom and pan through the image, mark > objects and create vector drawings on top of the image, then save > everything for others to view or download the vector data to > specialized microscopic software. > > With all the UI control, support for tiled images and markup, > OpenLayers looks very tempting to me, but I haven't had any exposure > to the development side. So I was wondering what you think, does this > sound feasible? What problems would you anticipate? > > many thanks > Hendrik > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > d...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev > -- Adrià Mercader ----------------------------- http://amercader.net _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list d...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev
