Wendell If I understand you correctly, you want to display your images as a mosaic of tiles. This question was asked last week, and the answer was to setup a raster WMS, that serves the images. Chris provided some links (see below) for doing it with mapserver (which we have found to excellent at serving images). The gdal tileindex utility can create a shapefile grid of all the images, you then simply reference that shapefile in your mapserver map file, and mapserver will find the appropriate image and display it
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/raster_data You'll then set up a WMS Server: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/wms_server Andrew -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lance Dyas Sent: 31 July 2008 03:22 PM To: openlayers user list Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] stitch together multiple maps? Wendell Turner wrote: > I have several GeoTIFF images and each shows up just fine > (by itself, using gdal2tile to break them up). > > How do I use OpenLayers to show a patchwork of maps? That > is, the left edge of one is the right edge of the other; the > bottom of one is the top of yet another, etc. In fact, I > have lots of these that form a mosaic of a given area. > > Should I use gdalxxx to put them together to form one (very > large) map and then use gdal2tile to break it up, If you are using the gdal library a handy method I have found to create such a very large mosaic is using gdals vrt format... then use it as a source for the gdal2tiles process. A vrt is an xml that describes the combination multiple source files which are then read from as though one file by other gdal processes _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.9/1583 - Release Date: 7/31/2008 6:17 AM _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users