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<body class='hmmessage'><br><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;">That type of solution would be perfect. I don't know if that's how it works. Hopefully someone can chime in, or else I'll just have to experiment. BTW, you're definitely not wasting my time. I need all the ideas I can get.<br></div><br><br><br><hr id="EC_stopSpelling">> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:02:53 -0500<br>> Subject: RE: [ka-Map-users] Re: scaled image\icon overlay<br>> From: neuhausr@bitstream.net<br>> To: semerau@hotmail.com<br>> <br>> This could be a dead end (I don't use kamap much), and if so I'm sorry for<br>> taking up your time. But, I thought you could choose certain layers to be<br>> cached, and others to not be cached. If not, there must at least be some<br>> way to bring in WMS layers "live". Maybe it's not done through the<br>> mapfile but another part of kamap? I'm not having a lot of luck searching<br>> for wms and kamap...<br>> <br>> Brad<br>> <br>> > Thanks, Brad. But won't ka-Map cache the image if its coming from<br>> > mapserver? I need to be able to change it at any time and have the browser<br>> > show the new image.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:51:14 -0500<br>> >> From: neuhausr@bitstream.net<br>> >> To: ka-map-users@lists.maptools.org<br>> >> Subject: [ka-Map-users] Re: scaled image\icon overlay<br>> >><br>> >> If your image is georeferenced, you can just make it a layer in<br>> >> mapserver<br>> >> and it will automatically scale and be in the right place. The most<br>> >> common way to do this is with a TIFF, and an accompanying World (.wld)<br>> >> file. There's a brief explanation here:<br>> >> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/raster_data<br>> >><br>> >> GDAL is an open source library which may help you get info on and modify<br>> >> your images. It's website is http://www.gdal.org/index.html, and it's<br>> >> easily available with FWTools http://fwtools.maptools.org/<br>> >><br>> >> You could also set up the airport image as a WMS you serve yourself from<br>> >> a<br>> >> separate mapfile, and overlay it in kamap as a WMS layer.<br>> >><br>> >> Hope this may help!<br>> >> Brad<br>> >><br>> >> ><br>> >> > Message: 7<br>> >> > Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:10:36 -0600<br>> >> > From: "semerau@hotmail.com" <semerau@hotmail.com><br>> >> > Subject: RE: [ka-Map-users] scaled image\icon overlay<br>> >> > To: <ka-map-users@lists.maptools.org><br>> >> > Message-ID: <BAY104-W6FC8721BFE4035AA16DA6B79E0@phx.gbl><br>> >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br>> >> ><br>> >> > I guess I could create separate sized images, one for each zoom level,<br>> >> and<br>> >> > overlay a particular once based on the zoom level. That would kind of<br>> >> be a<br>> >> > lot of work but I suppose that would work.<br>> >> ><br>> >> > Or maybe I can just use javascript to stretch or shrink the image<br>> >> based on<br>> >> > zoom level.<br>> >> ><br>> >> ><br>> >> ><br>> >> > From: semerau@hotmail.com<br>> >> > To: ka-map-users@lists.maptools.org<br>> >> > Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:45:05 -0600<br>> >> > Subject: [ka-Map-users] scaled image\icon overlay<br>> >> ><br>> >> ><br>> >> ><br>> >> ><br>> >> ><br>> >> ><br>> >> ><br>> >> > I see from the docs that only line and polygon overlays are scaled to<br>> >> the<br>> >> > map. Is there a way to scale an image or an icon overlay to the map? I<br>> >> > realize this is basically what mapserver does, but I would like to do<br>> >> this<br>> >> > through ka-map so I can have better control over when\whether the<br>> >> image is<br>> >> > displayed.<br>> >> ><br>> >> > For example, I would like to put an overlay image of an airport over<br>> >> the<br>> >> > place on the map where the airport is, and then when you zoom in and<br>> >> out,<br>> >> > the image of the airport overlays also zooms in and out. The image of<br>> >> the<br>> >> > airport will change often and often won't even be displayed. I don't<br>> >> want<br>> >> > to put the airport image on the map tile itself because then I would<br>> >> have<br>> >> > to set the caching of ka-Map so some low duration, but I still<br>> >> wouldn't be<br>> >> > able to control exactly when the airport image changes in the browser.<br>> >> ><br>> >> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.<br>> >><br>> >><br>> >> _______________________________________________<br>> >> ka-Map-users mailing list<br>> >> ka-Map-users@lists.maptools.org<br>> >> http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/ka-map-users<br>> ><br>> > _________________________________________________________________<br>> > Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Café. Stop<br>> > by today.<br>> > http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_OctWLtagline<br>> <br>> <br><br><hr>Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook – together at last. <a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102225181033.aspx?pid=CL100626971033" target="_blank">Get it now!</a>
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