<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>Hello<br><br>To use arbitrary imagery, you will need to<br><br>1) convert it to a format support by Flash. For most Flash Players, that will be JPEG (non-interlaced).<br>2) set the <north>, <south>, <east>, and <west> bounding box of the imagery.<br><br>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<br><span>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: <a target="_blank" href="http://mappinghacks.com/projects/gmaps/brc_ref.html">http://mappinghacks.com/projects/gmaps/brc_ref.html</a></span><br><br>Hope that
helps. Let us know how you get on.<br><br>Mikel<br><br>----- Original Message ----<br>From: aldossary abdulla <usadossary@yahoo.com><br>To: worldkit-dev@lists.brainoff.com<br>Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 6:25:42 PM<br>Subject: [worldKit-dev] how can scanned map be converted for worldkit use.<br><br><div>Hello,</div> <div> </div> <div>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.</div><p>
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