[Geoserver-users] serve arbitrary image tiles

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Hello,

I was wondering if I could use Geoserver as an image tiling server for arbitrary images. I have requirements to send GeoTIFF files as well as arbitrary image files.

If this is possible, how can I configure Geoserver to do this for me?

Thanks,

Ronak Patel

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Ronak Patel wrote:

Hello,

I was wondering if I could use Geoserver as an image tiling server for arbitrary images. I have requirements to send GeoTIFF files as well as arbitrary image files.

If this is possible, how can I configure Geoserver to do this for me?

Thanks,

Ronak Patel
  

Are you talking about regular WMS service ( /geoserver/wms ), or the GeoWebCache extension ( /geoserver/gwc/service/wms ) ?

These are the supported output formats from the regular WMS service: http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/WMS+output+formats

-Arne

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Ciao Ronak,
what do you mean by arbitrary image format??

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Ronak Patel <ronak2121@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hello,

I was wondering if I could use Geoserver as an image tiling server for arbitrary images. I have requirements to send GeoTIFF files as well as arbitrary image files.

If this is possible, how can I configure Geoserver to do this for me?

Thanks,

Ronak Patel

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I mean image files that are NOT Geospatial images but standard jpegs and/or png files. There would be no Geospatial data tagged along with the image.

Would Geoserver be able to act as an imae tiling server for those kinds of images?

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Ciao Ronak,
what do you mean by arbitrary image format??

Simone.
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Ing. Simone Giannecchini
GeoSolutions S.A.S.
Owner - Software Engineer
Via Carignoni 51
55041 Camaiore (LU)
Italy

phone: +39 0584983027
fax: +39 0584983027
mob: +39 333 8128928

http://www.geo-solutions.it
http://simboss.blogspot.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonegiannecchini

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Ronak Patel <ronak2121@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hello,

I was wondering if I could use Geoserver as an image tiling server for arbitrary images. I have requirements to send GeoTIFF files as well as arbitrary image files.

If this is possible, how can I configure Geoserver to do this for me?

Thanks,

Ronak Patel

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Ronak Patel wrote (off list):

Does this mean I can take an arbitrary image, like let's say an image of a flower and have Geoserver tile the image into an image pyramid, and then serve those tiles to clients?

That is what my requirements are. I have thought about using adore-djatoka for that but was wondering if Geoserver handles this. It would be mighty nice if it does.

Thanks for the prompt reply!
  

"Arbitrary images files" can mean a lot of things in this context, I did not anticipate your particular one.

I'm sure there are ways you can achieve *some* of aDORe's functionality if you get your data into GeoServer. I don't know much about that, maybe someone else does, I guess GDAL may be able to help you turn these into GeoTIFFs which you can then load into GeoServer.

http://www.gdal.org/gdal_translate.html

-Arne

Ronak Patel wrote:
  

Hello,

I was wondering if I could use Geoserver as an image tiling server for arbitrary images. I have requirements to send GeoTIFF files as well as arbitrary image files.

If this is possible, how can I configure Geoserver to do this for me?

Thanks,

Ronak Patel
  

Are you talking about regular WMS service ( /geoserver/wms ), or the GeoWebCache extension ( /geoserver/gwc/service/wms ) ?

These are the supported output formats from the regular WMS service: http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/WMS+output+formats

-Arne

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OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
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