ahhh, Groam, I actually have it tiled, and am fiddling with 2 things,or one thing that does two things, markers which will open links to either the CWBP Wiki, or to higher resolution subsets of the map (for which right now I am just using filler images), but until the me-dem site is fixed I won't be uploading any files, I don't want to put a wrench into any of the work JavaJones is doing to upgrade the site. InsCarto is not actually "within" me-dem's cms, but I don't want to risk it.
I was thinking that not all maps may be as large as Thrubmorton Fen in resolution, yet they may have Cities or Villages, or even Structures, that are done in their own map, and so to see them in the context of where they "are in the World" a clickable marker placed above the actual country map at the proper location would be nice, click the linked marker and the new map opens..or if some one writes a bit of info/story about a specific location a marker can link to that..
I have a version working in frames, a smaller frame for the whole country map (to give the overview) which has the markers, and a larger frame which will display the higher resolution map/image(if it is say, a Tavern),,,and a version which opens a new window with a separate gmap instance.
The frames page works/looks real good with big monitors, while the separate pages version looks best on laptop/normal monitors.
To make all the html/jscripting easier I have been experimenting with exporting the lat long coordinates from Global Mapper, after digitizing the locations of the points of interest, as its own csv file, which I convert to xml for the page to get and load....This way, or once I finalize a nice way, the actual page html will be cleaner, and mods to the marker xml will be easier. I could even go the route of loading the marker files on Google Docs as a table and pull it from there,,,if I could remember my log-in
I will have to look into the Wiki link tick box Redrobes, I had read about it in the API forums, but never got back to it.
And, I have also been looking into / learning as much as I can about serving tiles on the fly, between bouts of child minding.
As the amount of tiles needed grows, the benefits of having a few huge images, compared to tens of thousands of precut tiles, appear.
USNAVIGUIDE, John Coryat's mapping business serves out imagery cut on the fly at quite a volume, he uses Perl 5.8 with DBI, GD and CGI modules,PostgreSQL 8.2 with PostGIS Extension,Apache 2.0 webserver, USNaviguide_Google_Relpix Perl module,USNaviguide_Google_Tiles Perl module,ProjectedImage.js Javascript ,,,he supplies the scripts and perl modules from his site, as well as a good bit of info. But as I have no experience with the software (yet) I am still in the try and try again mode to get it to work.
Luckily we have not yet approached the point yet, with either me-dem or guild imagery where changing how the tiles are stored/served is necessary,,,I would like to get there though.
SeerBlue
edit; after posting I realized I was repeating my previous post, pretty much, guess the memory is going.
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