Creating Tiled Mapping Service images

New multi-resolution Cartographic maps following the OSGeo TMS conventions can be easily created from global, fixed resolutiion maps and made available for import via vaporgui's Image tab. The conversion of an existing fixed-resolution global map to a TMS map can be facilitated by the 'maketiles.py' script found in the VAPOR examples/misc directory.

Prerequisites for conversion:

  1. A raster image with a global cylindrical equistant projection (EPSG:4326)
  2. Version 2.0 or greater of the Open Source Geospatial Foudation's GDAL Python package must be installed

Conversion process

Documentation for converting a fixed-resolution map to TMS is provided in the form of comments inside VAPOR's 'maketiles.py' script.

Release Availability: version 2.5.0 and beyond