Image Layers

2 approaches:

1. Use a WMS Server

• Control ​GeoServer via REST
• Build a .map file for ​MapServer using ​Python MapScript

Ideally this would be integrated so that the user would see this as an Image layer even if the backend did it via WMS.

2. Use OpenLayers.Layer.Image

• ​http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.7/doc/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Layer/Image-js.html

Can optionally use ​gdal2tiles to split a large image into Tiles for beter performance.

We can include access to ​True Marble as a useful base/sample.

• TrueMarble.32km.1350x675.tif actually included in the tree, with a script to download higher resolutions

If an old map then may wish to include a Rectifer