[Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps

[Gerry Creager]

I'm about to embark on a bit of mapserver work, and this is likely as 
good a time as any to learn how to tile in gdal.

gerry

Curt Mills wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Steve Dimse wrote:
> 
>> Just to prove the point that it would not be easier, here is the toporama
>> cgi...
> 
> I can understand much of it, but the math is sure thugly!  We could
> toss the DBI stuff 'cuz we don't do it by callsign, but the rest
> would be necessary.
> 
> That math is about as ugly as the USGS DRG code which does basically
> the same thing:  Contiguous maps.  That was a major pain to write
> but was what got me contributing to the Xastir project.  Hopefully
> you had an easier time of it with the Perl and Toporama, but I
> suspect debugging took you a while.
> 
> Again, looks like MapServer/WMS would be the way to go in the
> future.  Let somebody ELSE do all the map joining...
> 

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