I've just spent the last 4 days getting a handle on using OpenLayers (and learning a LOT about GIS in general) - so to all the Developers out there a hearty - Well done - your ROCK!
I am stuck on my final step of implementing this for several web sites and would appreciate any advice those in "the know" can offer: 1) I need to find the best way to add a JPEG map (produced elsewhere) that is NOT georeferenced yet to be an overlay layer for OpenLayers - hopefully via TMS as the map is street level of a region. I expect that I need to: a) Georeference it (best way to do that? I have many known LatLon points on the map) b) Save it in a friendly format (gtiff ?) c) Tile it (tried gdal2tiles - but not sure how to control the output resolutions to match my base layer VMAP0) d) Upload it to the web server as a TMS (I want to be able to serve it WITHOUT Mapserver) I have gone ahead and installed MapServer 5 on my dev server in the hopes I could add it that way (via a WMS layer and then pull off the tiles) but I still need to georeference it and Find the extents (no idea how to do this for a raster gdalinfo doesn't seem to give them the way orginfo does and everything online seems to be about the later) I have access to QGIS, ArcView, MapServer, FWTools, and extensive PHP programming knowledge I tried for about half a day to get TileCache to work (having read that is a good way to do the tiling) but my web server really doesn't seem to like Python so I'm hoping there is some other way. Any advice much appreciated - I can make several people very happy if I can get this working. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Best-Practise-%28newb%29-tp14338288p14338288.html Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
