[worldKit-dev] how can scanned map be converted for worldkit use.

[Mikel Maron]

Hello

To use arbitrary imagery, you will need to

1) convert it to a format support by Flash. For most Flash Players, that will be JPEG (non-interlaced).
2) set the <north>, <south>, <east>, and <west> bounding box of the imagery.

2 can be tricky if you only have some arbitrary imagery available; you'd need to do the georeferencing yourself. There are various tools to do this, but off the top of my head
the only one I know of is Hack 56 in the "Google Maps Hacks" book from O'Reilly. There's a demo of this at their website: http://mappinghacks.com/projects/gmaps/brc_ref.html

Hope that helps. Let us know how you get on.

Mikel

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Subject: [worldKit-dev] how can scanned map be converted for worldkit use.

Hello,
   
  This is my first posting to this list, I found that the worldkit is very neat, i am actually doing project of locating moving autos like cars and trucks in real time on the map , rental cars and shipment companies have demanded such online tools . The problem is that i have scanned maps of some cities . how can i convert or what can i do to make these maps usable or acceptable or in format so i can use them with worldkit api or rss , what can i do to the map lat/long data included in the map digital file .   i will appreciate it if i can get help and assistance on this.
 		
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