[OSM-dev] Cutting up an image into tiles

Nick Black nickblack1 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 28 13:16:23 GMT 2007


On 2/28/07, Artem Pavlenko <artem at pavlenko.uklinux.net> wrote:
> Nick,
> Or even better use Mapnik!

Do you mean use the Mapnik WMS server?  I've never got round to
looking at that.  Kristian is sticking it on his WMS as we speak.

> 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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