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On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 14:35 -0700, Scott Baker wrote: > Guess I got that one totally wrong (I'm very new to all this) > > I had looked at those posts - but they still show just a single TMS > layer - not TMS and WMS combined. The bit I was looking for was an > example of using a TMS on top of a WMS layer - for example - say a small > custom raster map (not of the whole world) split into TMS tiles that > should sit at a certain spot on a world basemap. I'd still love to see > an example of that if you know of any. > > As for the popper prep of data for serving and mapserver speed - yes the > data probably could be much better - I'd just doing my best trying to > learn way more about GIS and these systems then I ever intended to do > :) It's all converted to shapefiles and only 2 TIFs - large shapefiles > are split into tiles, everything has tile indexes, limits for various > layers by scale, and all the unused data has been stripped out - but I'm > really just fumbling to make it work - that said there are 27 layers > (about 8GB) of data I need to combine into a nice map - I was happy I > got it to work at all :) > > PS: Please don't get me wrong - I hope that last email didn't come > across as being angry or negative about OL or this group (email > sometimes comes across that way even when not intended) - I was just > trying to help someone with seemingly the same problem. > > There is an immense amount of knowledge built up inside many of the > people here - I am truly in awe of how much people know about all this > stuff - I think there are a lot of us just trying to catch up enough to > get something to work - please bear with our/my ignorance. For example > suggesting writing another tool to do something like what gdal2tiles > does - I wouldn't ever even think of embarking upon a task like that > until I finally manage, for example, to wrap my head around how a > bounding box can be specified using metres instead of Lat/Long for units > (still stumps me - and yes I have read the posts about it) > "@^# it jim, > I'm a programmer not a cartographer!" ;) > ^^^ love that part! :) ..... Bill, _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
