Subject: Re: Ideas on best FOSS options
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.gis.freegis
Date: 2008-02-04 06:09:21 GMT (48 weeks, 4 days, 17 hours and 48 minutes ago)
Hi, with OpenLayers, I use TileCache -- http://tilecache.org it works nice jachym John Zastrow píše v Ne 03. 02. 2008 v 21:01 -0500: > I need to create an attractive set of static tiles for the USA (based on > shapefiles) to populate a web-server-only (e.g., small-footprint, not > dynamic, not a real map server) online map to embed in a java-based > application without internet access. > > My first attempt used ArcGIS to render a GeoTIFF of a layout at high > resolution and then passed the image into gdal2tiles.py > (http://www.klokan.cz/projects/gdal2tiles/) (which is EXCELLENT) to > create a shell OpenLayers app that I can customize. This worked fine, > except the image quality from ArcGIS was horrible, particularly when > zoomed in (no anti-alias). > > I'm a now trying to use mapnik (mapnik.org) to create the same image at > higher quality. But I am suffering deeply from an acute lack of > documentation which makes creating the cartography even more painful > (where are recipes, examples, and docs for mapnik?) > > Is there something else that I can use to create the tiles needed for > the OpenLayers app? Or is there an easier tool for creating a high-res, > high-quality georeferenced image that can be used by gdal2tiles.py? Any > thoughts would be greatly appreciated. > > > _______________________________________________ > Freegis-list mailing list > Freegis-list <at> intevation.de > https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list -- Jachym Cepicky e-mail: jachym.cepicky <at> gmail.com URL: http://les-ejk.cz GPG: http://www.les-ejk.cz/pgp/jachym_cepicky-gpg.pub
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