Since your data originates in the ESRI world. Your easiest option will be to make a cached map service using ArcGIS Server. Find out from your GIS guy if he has access to ArcGIS Server.
By going this route you will get high quality tiles at all of the different zoom levels you are interested in. See the following link: http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisserver/9.3/dotNet/index.htm#what_is_map_caching.htm Rich On Apr 20, 6:58 am, Lumbee <marklockl...@gmail.com> wrote: > ...thanx for that link Mike, I'll sit down with my GIS guy and > consider that as an option. > > John C....that totally makes sense that as you zoom in you begin to > change what the user sees on the map. I guess the first step is to sit > done with my GIS guy and produce two or three zoom levels of the map. > I'll also begin looking at your scripts for tiling data. Thanx for the > help... > > On Apr 19, 3:39 pm, "maps.huge.info [Maps API Guru]" > > > > <cor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have several examples of Perl programs that generate tiles from data > > in the workshop. Those programs, along with the data and everything > > else in the workshop are available for download > > from:http://www.usnaviguide.com/ws-2008-02-look for the file named > > download.zip or something of that nature. > > > As for creating one humongous image and breaking into several tile > > layers, you'll have to consider that at a lower zoom, the features > > will appear extremely tiny and lines barely visible or not at all. > > Also, beyond two levels higher than the natural zoom of the image, > > features will start to be pixelated. A better strategy would be to > > produce several images, each optimized to view at the natural zoom of > > that image so features appear the correct size. If you do this, you > > can also select which features to display at that zoom level, which > > will make it more meaningful to the user. For instance, in a wide view > > of the US, very few if any cities are shown, in a zoomed in view of > > NYC, parks and main streets are shown. It's just more usable that way. > > > -John Coryat > > >http://maps.huge.info > > >http://www.usnaviguide.com > > >http://www.zipmaps.net > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google Maps API" group. > > To post to this group, send email to google-maps-...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-maps-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Maps API" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-maps-...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-maps-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to google-maps-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
