[OSM-dev] Cutting up an image into tiles

Artem Pavlenko artem at pavlenko.uklinux.net
Wed Feb 28 12:12:37 GMT 2007


Nick,
Or even better use Mapnik!
Let me know I'll send you a script.

Cheers,
Artem

On Wednesday 28 February 2007 11:46, Kristian Thy wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, Nick Black wrote:
> > I have a TIFF image map of the Isle of Man at approximately 1:25,000
> > scale.   The IoM Gov have given dervative rights to OSM to use it to
> > produce data from.  I need to cut the image up into smaller tiles,
> > which I was then planning on rectifying using the metacarta rectifier,
> > then using the JOSM WMS plugin the trace the roads.
> >
> > So can anyone point me in the direction of some guidelines about
> > scripting ImageMagick / Rmagick , or something the cut the image up -
> > which shouldnt be too hard to do?   I dont have access to the TIFF
> > right at the moment, but its big.  Over 80mb I think.
>
> Cut, tiles, what? If it's georeferenced, put it in MapServer and publish
> it as a WMS. I can supply the MapServer if needed.
>
> \\kristian




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