Posted by ssm2017 Binder on April 21, 2010 at 5:47pm
hello
i am currently trying to develop a set of modules to control a virtual world server system using drupal.
i need to build a map for this system
i dont know the map systems except running gmap+location.
my goal is to try to build something like this :
http://maps.secondlife.com/
i know a python script that is generating "tiles" from the land at different altitudes using cron
http://hwios.org/browser/osmaps
but other solutions ca be used if you know a better one
i can provide more info to the ones who are interested about this.
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You'll probably want to use
You'll probably want to use TileCache, GeoServer, or MapServer for this, combined with the OpenLayers module. However, if your knowledge is limited to gmap+location, this is probably going to be a very long term project or something for which you'll need to hire consultants.
i can not hire consultants
i can not hire consultants because the goal is to provide a map system for an opensource set of modules and i am not rich.
i see that there are a lot of people using maps in this group so maybe there is someone available to help me to build this system.
i went to see mapbox and i have tested http://www.klokan.cz/projects/gdal2tiles/ to generate tiles but my problem is that the source is a set of multiple images instead of a single large one.
im getting images from a set of separated servers with a url like http://94.23.38.21:9200/index.php?method=regionImage0e337b03fb1f41f4b07e...
then i need to generate the pyramid.
someone gave me an example using python but converted to php, this script is not useable (need a very long time to generate tiles using php+imagick)
this is good for little maps but when generating a map for few hundreds of places, this is too long.
maybe someone knows a python script or something else to generate tiles using multiple source files.
So it'll have to be a long
So it'll have to be a long term project. Your first step should probably be learning enough Python so that you can use PIL to write a script that mosaics the images: there's very little chance that you'll find something premade that does that kind of task.
:) thank you anyway for attention
i thought that a tool like that could already exist