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A collection of image files each containing a section of a map, or remote sensing scene.

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How to list all names of tile inside a given polygon?

I'd like to generate a specific set of slippy map tiles to cover certain a certain land mass. Given a polygon shapefile, is there something that will quickly generate a listing of the z/x/y tile names that sit inside that polygon at a specific zoom…
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How display tiles by using earth plugin in browser?

I was using MapTiler to generate tiles for my maps, and everything is great. But I have problems with displaying those tiles in 3D version by using earth plugin. The data which gave me MapTiler was with files but for API 2, but I want to use now API…
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What is best approach to provide a WMS of world coverage of 1 meter CIB?

I have been tasked with creating WMS's of several raster types to include 1 meter CIB. We have an overall ESRI environment to include ArcGIS Server and we have a butt load of original CIB data (world coverage). Not asking for the perfect answer,…
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Find or create XYZ tiles with only country names

I need XYZ tiles with only country names to use in a Leaflet website. Do publicly available XYZ tiles with only country names exist? If so, where can one find such resources? If not, is there such a way to generate XYZ tiles only with country…
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what map tile numbering system has two tiles at level 0?

I have a set of map tiles that follow the typical quad tree format however, at level 0 (zoomed all the way out), I have two tiles instead of the expected 1. The tiles also follow a {z}/{y}/{x} numbering system. What is this system called? I don't…
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Can the XYZ tile naming convention be used for Geodetic (global-geodetic)?

I know that the XYZ convention is an alternative for the TMS convention for Mercator projection and in this configuration, it's also called the Slippy Maps naming convention. Can the XYZ convention be used for the Geodetic projection? If so, is the…
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Bounding Box to list of included Tile Quadkeys

In all places where it's possible to find formulas related to Tiles & Quadkeys, it seems that the function translating bounding box (rectangular on exact Tile borders - cannot divide a Tile, however not necessary square) into contained Quadkeys is…
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How to generate dynamic tiles

I was studying the Trulia crime map and found that they were generating dynamic tiles with color block based on crime count. I am a newbie to mapping world and found how to generate static tiles, serve them, cache them etc. I am not able to…
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Create tiles for leaflet.js

All I am trying to do is create map tiles from an image to be used on a webiste. The only program I have found to do this is MapTiler, however it adds a watermark. Does anyone know how I can create them without any watermarks?
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Tool to Interpolate Map Tile Levels

I'm using a tile service that has different imagery sources at different zoom levels e.g. when zoomed out clouds and older imagery are shown, but as you zoom in to higher resolution imagery the clouds are lost and imagery is more recent. Ideally I'd…
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Getting grayscale heightmap from Terrarium map

I'm downloading Terrarium maps from AWS S3 and I'm unable to generate a gray heightmap out of it. Does someone know the formula to translate the pixel RGB values into the grayscale (0, 255) heightmap? The following image represents the area I'm…
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Add symbols to points in georeferenced images and save the tile with the newly added symbol

I have photoindex, each tile is a georeferenced jpg and I have a list of coordinates that can be represented as point. If a point is contained in a tile, I must put a symbol in that tile where the point is to save the tile as jpg using the id of…
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How to tile an Image created in Adobe Illustrator

I'm a beginner in this and don't understand something. I have a simple map in Adobe Illustrator, and I want to tiling it to using in webglearth (https://www.webglearth.com/). How I can do it?
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Is there any free tool to create Tile Package?

Currently my desktop widget has to work offline mode and I do not have any basemap in .tpk format. I saw an app from Esri called Tile Package Kreator however I think it is not available in stores anymore. Any help or suggestion?
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