An image file containing a section of map.
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How to choose suitable pyramid levels and tile size?
I have a big tiff file and i want to create tiles with gdal_retile. However I am still concerned about the pyramids levels and the tiles' size. how can I choose suitable pyramids levels (for example ...
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A strange OSM tiles in Mapproxy
Could someone please help me with my issue? I try to use Mapproxy with OpenStreetMap server of tiles in order to get output WMS for my qgis client. Something like this:
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sources:
arcgis_tms:
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Creating responsive interaction with tiled maps
I think I may have two conflicting aims but...
I need to create responsive Choropleth map very similar to http://leafletjs.com/examples/choropleth.html or
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1answer
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What do I need in order to show offline map (tile cached based) of area from OSM using Openlayers?
I want to make an offline map with certain zoom levels of an area from OSM (preferably keeping the styles of OSM).
Client will use OpenLayers , If needed I can install Geoserver/Mapserver and MS-SQL ...
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1answer
274 views
How to preload tiles in Leaflet?
I'm trying to make a user controlled cross-layer animation in Leaflet.
I have about 70 tileLayer.wms layers, that need to be preloaded on the map before animation can run.
The question is - is there ...
2
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1answer
179 views
How can I use tiles in an ArcGIS .tpk file with Google Maps?
ArcGIS can export a map as server tiles as a compressed folder with the extension .tpk, as described in the ArcGIS documentation.
However, it is not clear how I can get Google maps to read these ...
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How can I show MapInfo tabs in OpenLayers without using MapXtreme Tile Handler?
I want to connect OpenLayers to mapinfo tabs I have , but I don't have MapXtreme license . Is there a way to show the tabs using different Tile Cache ? I can export the workspace to WOR or MWS files.
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What kind of AWS configuration is needed for running a low-to-medium bandwidth Web map app?
Does anyone have experience with running Web maps (tile server + client JS scripting) on Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2 etc...)? What kind of AWS configuration is needed for running a low-to-medium ...
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2answers
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Should I use gdal_retile.py or gdal2tiles.py?
I have many GeoTif files that I want to display in google earth with Geoserver. I am wondering if I want to use gdal_retile.py or gdal2tiles.py to create the image pyramids for them to be usable in ...
3
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1answer
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Generate a pyramid of tiles by 1/2 scaling a higher zoom level
Given a set of tiles covering a large area at a particular zoom level (These are online on someone's tile server and will need scraping, but let's assume these are on disk if it's easier. With TMS ...
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1answer
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Generating tiles for osm/esri shapefiles
I've generated tiles for OpenStreetMap .OSM files using Maperitive and quickly consumed them with leaflet (with no tile cache yet).
I'm now looking for the right and simple way to to that also with ...
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How to georeference a web mercator tile correctly using gdal?
As an example I will take the following tile http://a.tile.openstreetmap.org/3/4/2.png and save it as "4_2.png".
The WGS84 coordinates of this tile can be calculated or read there by clicking the ...
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Why is my shapefile not visible in Tilemill?
I have 3 layers of vectors (shapefiles) that I've loaded into Tilemill. However, nothing is visible in Tilemill. What am I doing wrong, and what should I do to get my map to show up?
This is part ...
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1answer
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QGIS custom CRS for map of manufacturing shop floor
I'm working on a web app that shows a map of a manufacturing plant's shop floor. I've built it in Inkscape and QGIS, but when I try to load it into Tilemill, I get a CRS error. Specifically, it ...
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1answer
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Add a mbtiles file to TileMill
is it possible to add a mbtiles file as TileMill layer?
Thank you,
Andrea
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1answer
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Create WMS service from existing image tiles
I have image tiles (jpg image files with txt georeference info files; see picture) stored in catalog (about 12GB, size one image tile ~ 275*466 meters). It possible create WMS service of the tiles to ...
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1answer
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Empty preview map Tilestache Mbtiles
So, I generated a map on tilemill and exported the mbtiles file. I've setup Tilestache, and all required dependencies. I tried the OSM preview provided by default which worked fine.
When I tried to ...
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2answers
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local tiles server for offline access
Anyone knows if there is a "lightway" solution to mount a local tile server?
Feature I'd to provide is local storage of small sections of maps, not more than small city for example, in order to ...
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Looking for stand alone map server
New to mapping tech.
Requirements:
Stand Alone Server for offline use (will be an internal app) - No Mobile.
Ability to add custom CSS class and hover information to US counties
Programmatically ...
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1answer
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Counting slippy map tiles
I would like to calculate approximately, how many tiles of given size would need to be rendered for a given bounding box and zoom level range in a given projection (always 3857).
For example, for:
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3answers
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Optimizing OSM tiles download
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about maps, please excuse me.
In our mobile app, we use Cloudmade as our map tiles provider.
For certain places, we download multiple tiles for each zoom level ...
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1answer
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How do I know when to use a map server or a tile server?
I'm new in GIS tech and I still have some questions about GIS.
I wanted to know why to choose a map server (mapserver, geomap) instead of a tile server (tilestream, tilecache or tilestache) + tile ...
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1answer
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How can I use MOBAC atlases in GIS Software (e.g., QGis, uDig)
How can I use the output from MOBAC (Mobile Atlas Creator) as background layer in open source desktop GIS software (e.g., QGis or uDig, TileMill etc.)?
My goal:
To put my question into context: I ...
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2answers
221 views
How Mapserver deals with Huge Aerial Images
I've been trying to evaluate Mapserver , i'm wondering if there's a way to handle the large size of Aerial image with any kind of Tiling or Caching .
Thanx
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1answer
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gdal2tiles and tile numbers [closed]
I run gdal2tiles.py on a vrt (EPSG:4326) file and gives good results when overlay over OSM. Openlayers projection is EPSG:900913. The output is a set of directory/files (z/x/y). I used ms4w.
However, ...
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6answers
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Creating a small web-mapping/map-tiling service
I am looking for a small-scale and easy way to present one or more polygon shapefiles online (on a municipal website without any existing map-server infrastructure, to be precise). Right now, I'm ...
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0answers
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Tilestache cache folder permission on Apache
So, Ive setup tilestache on a remote server and the cache folder for the tiles is /home/httpdocs/stache where the apache default folder is /home/httpdocs/.
I'm having trouble with tilestache caching ...
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3answers
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tile cache error : Lower left corner is outside layer bounds
i have made a wms layers in openlayers consuming cached tiles generatred by tile cache , in the generation step i have used this configuration :
[vmap0]
type=WMS
...
3
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1answer
228 views
How to handle a geotiff map together with points with openlayers (or other libraries)?
I create a lot of printed maps using various applications (ArcGIS, QGIS, Microstation, Illustrator etc). Sometimes I'd like to turn this map somewhat interactive on the web.
What I'm looking for is a ...
6
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1answer
390 views
What does maps.nokia.com use?
The maps on maps.nokia.com are pretty amazing. I assume they're generating their own tiles but, does anyone know about the infrastructure behind site: the tile server used? and their JavaScript ...
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1answer
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Merge GeoWebCache generated tiles from one server with tiles from another server
I have a set of tiles (millions) generated by the builtin GWC in GeoServer 2.1.2 which is stored on server A.
I would like to copy all the tiles to server B containing GeoServer 2.1.3 and the ...
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2answers
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How to optimize a WMS request by limiting number of tiles?
I want to display the layer using WMS and meanwhile I want to limit the number of tiles with their respecive BBox when map is loaded. At the backend I am using geoserver.
I can limit the number of ...
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3answers
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Performance of google map tile creation processes
I know that question is rather vague but please bear w/me. I'm trying to get an idea of what sort of product performance - specifically timing - people have seen for various methodologies they have ...
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1answer
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Wrong tiles generated in OpenLayers XYZ layer
I am creating a map in OpenLayers using Base layer as ESRI online map server. And second layer as our own esri map server serving the overlay. The Base layer shows correctly, but OpenLayer requests ...
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1answer
588 views
Understanding the Map Tile creation properties
I am trying to create a tile base map.
I have an image that I want to create the tile from and I am using GDAL.
I managed to create the tiles but when I view the result it seems that the tiled map ...
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1answer
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GDAL Tiling, Missing Tiles
i have used gdal2tiles.py for tiling about 100 tiff tiles which i have generated virtual dataset with gdalbuildvrt for my 1:250.000 scaled maps...
everything goes well from 15 to 11, but when it ...
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0answers
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How display tiles by using earth plugin in browser?
I was using MAp Tiler to generate tiles for my maps, And everything is great. But I have problems with displaying those tiles in 3D version by using earth plugin. The data which gave me Map tiler was ...
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1answer
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Efficient Outputs for GeoServer Vector Data
Ok, here's our problem. We have a mapping application at http://explorer.geowessex.com which uses OpenLayers and GeoServer for delivering the data. The data is potentially endless and we have very ...
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2answers
371 views
Using TiledMapServiceLayer and On Demand Tiling
I have a tiling services which generates tiles on demand but TiledMapServiceLayer does not use a callback for getTileUrl so how would one implement this? I've tried using the refresh! method to no ...
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2answers
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What is the compression gained by caching mod_tile's metatile instead png tiles?
What is the level of compression gained caching mod_tile's larger metatile instead of 256 by 256 .png tiles?
I am trying to determine the extra cost of storage resources for pre-rendering some set of ...
5
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2answers
567 views
Generating GeoJSON tiles from GeoDjango - basic overview?
I'm working with the glorious PolyMaps and I want to build a map similar to the population example.
I understand that this needs GeoJSON tiles. I have a GeoDjango database, with a bunch of County ...
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0answers
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How can I modify the tiles size in Openscales or other ways to boost the application performance
I am developing an application in Flex that uses Openscales and GeoServer in order to provide a map in the background. It works but the perfs aren't really good; even if everything is on the same ...
2
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0answers
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GeoServer + ImagePyramid: Request is empty where data exists
I have set up an image pyramid based on 5 levels of tiling. The data is served using the ImagePyramid plugin for GeoServer. When I do a layer preview the data is visualized just like I expect them to ...
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3answers
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Simple way to have an offline web based map?
My goal is to have a world map embedded in a web page, but without access to the internet. Preferrably only a set of tiles in combination with some slippy map js-lib. Storage space is not really an ...
2
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0answers
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Tile mode in Map server
I am trying to overlay the layers that are rendered using map server over google maps.I am pretty much new to this whole thing. So I tried to go through this example here here ...
2
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2answers
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Image tiling math
I've been looking at MapTiler for the logic on how to render an image
as tiles on a (google) map. Instead of storing the single tiles
locally in a folder structure I want to use Djatoka. I'm able to
...
3
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1answer
281 views
How do i get country boundary and names to show up in postgis backed mapnik rendered map?
I followed this to setup postgis server with planet-latest.osm. I used generate_xml.py to generate stylesheets. Using this style sheet with mapnik produces a world map with no country boundaries or ...
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2answers
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Script for creating a tile-pyramid from a wms service
Given a WMS service, is there a ready-made script that, for a given extent, creates a tile-pyramid that is compliant with:
http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/reference.html#tilelayer
That is urls on the ...
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0answers
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Geoserver tiles mismatch
I tried to get WMS tiles from geoserver like
/geoserver/gwc/service/tms/1.0.0/layername@EPSG%3A4326@png/15/19142/9530.png
or with another projection
...
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2answers
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How to get a slippy map from OziExplorer .map and .png tiles?
I have a bunch of topographic maps in the format of .map files and 4000x4000px png files.I would like to view them as a slippy map and be able to select an area and export that as one big image. I am ...
