merging this jpeg with your own data is the trick and of course GeoTools is one
tool set that would help as would uDig, Jump, SVG, … It just depends what
you need at the other end. Do you want a view only rendering or some kind of
interactivity.
Hi Randy,
Thanks for all your tips. I
Hi Harsh,
Well you don’t exactly even need Geotools since this kind of thing will
do it:
http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/wms.cgi?styles=&service=WMS&request=GetMap&layers=modis&format=image/jpeg&srs=EPSG:4326&bbox=-6.967742919921875,40.45161437988281,9.290313720703125,53.225
Hi,
JPL has a nice set of world topography
(WMS): http://wms.jpl.nasa.gov/wms.cgi?request=GetCapabilities
(try modis)
Digital Chart of World here (WMS): http://www2.demis.nl/wms/wms.asp?wms=WorldMap&request=GetCapabilities
(Note: not always as reliably online as government WMS urls
