03:41 pm, 1 Mar 08
sf bike maps
Dear Lazyweb,
Why hasn't someone rendered the SF bike map to a bunch of PNGs and made a Google Maps-style draggable interface to it? It takes my computer five seconds to render a given view of the enormous PDF they provide.
Failing that, could anyone point me at a Javascript library for doing this? The PDF→PNG and hosting stuff I got covered, but I don't really need more projects right now.
Why hasn't someone rendered the SF bike map to a bunch of PNGs and made a Google Maps-style draggable interface to it? It takes my computer five seconds to render a given view of the enormous PDF they provide.
Failing that, could anyone point me at a Javascript library for doing this? The PDF→PNG and hosting stuff I got covered, but I don't really need more projects right now.
You might like to take a look at OpenLayers. It's used by OpenStreetMap for their so-called "slippy map".
Why doesn't Google Maps include bike map data?
http://zoomify.com/
have a free app that converts an enourmous image into a heirarchy of little tiles. They have a free flash viewer that works ok too.
Thankfully I'm not the only person who hates flash. These people:
http://brainmaps.org/index.php?p=brain-maps-api
have a javascript viewer that takes a folder in the above format.