Georeferencing is available in QGIS 0.90 as a plugin. Tara pawprint_net wrote: > 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. >
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