Re: [MAPSERVER-USERS] Serving jpeg tiles - is there a howto?

2008-12-14 Thread bibbob
Christopher Schmidt-4 wrote: > > Note that with something like this, you don't need MapServer at all: > with a little bit of legwork, you can load these into OpenLayers > directly, following the instructions in something like: > http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/UsingCustomTiles . > Brilliant! T

Re: [MAPSERVER-USERS] Serving jpeg tiles - is there a howto?

2008-12-14 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:13:16AM -0800, bibbob wrote: > > Hello, > > Sorry if this question is a bit newbie-ish, but I've searched quite a bit > for a guide on how to do this and haven't come up with anything yet. > > I have a pile of JPEG images which are tiles of a map. I'd like to serve >

Re: [MAPSERVER-USERS] Serving jpeg tiles - is there a howto?

2008-12-14 Thread thomas bonfort
hi, the "easiest" way imho would be to create a custom batch script that creates wld georeferencing files for each of your jpegs: - use grep on the file name to extract the upper left coordinate (minx, maxy) - calculate the size of a single pixel (either from the image size and extent, or hardcode

[MAPSERVER-USERS] Serving jpeg tiles - is there a howto?

2008-12-14 Thread bibbob
Hello, Sorry if this question is a bit newbie-ish, but I've searched quite a bit for a guide on how to do this and haven't come up with anything yet. I have a pile of JPEG images which are tiles of a map. I'd like to serve them as a layer in MapServer (to use them within OpenLayers, but that's