I built an openlayers map of the antarctic i thought i would share with the list. http://www.teamqinetiq.com Team QinetiQ are involved in a race to the South Pole. I was responsible for the mapping.
Map base layer came from the usgs via the british antarctic survey. A 2Gb tiff down to a 37 j2k file held on geoserver using oscache. The map shows the team's current position using kml. The team have a gps unit linked to a satellite phone. The position is picked up on our servers and the kml is updated if they've moved from last known position. There's also some nice 3D google earth plugin pages showing the same data. The openlayers map i originally thought was displaying universal polar stereographic coordinates but now i'm not so sure. I think it just might be crazy large lats and longs. Frankly time was pressing and once the data was being displayed correctly the map remained untouched. Some nice perl scripts read in the kml and produce a kml_ups file which is then served up in openlayers. The Google Earth version uses the preprocessed kml file. Gdal as a perl module was used to convert the coordinates. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Antarctic-OpenLayers-Map-tp2168857p2168857.html Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
