[OSM-talk] Different tile numbers in MapTiler than other tile sets

Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahkonen at mmmtike.fi
Tue May 11 14:51:47 BST 2010


Andy Allan <gravitystorm <at> gmail.com> writes:

> gdal2tiles, and probably MapTiler too, produce OGC-approved,
> industry-standard "TMS" tiles, which are numbered from bottom left.
> Over here in the real world, everyone else uses tiles numbered from
> the top left. That's almost certainly the problem.
> 
> I don't know how to fix it for you, but maybe look for an option "(x)
> ignore the standards when the standards are wrong" option in MapTiler?

TMS standard comes originally from the Open source GIS world, see
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Tile_Map_Service_Specification. Are you suggesting to
ignore Open source when industry starts to accept the same concepts :)

-Jukka Rahkonen-





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