Re: Displaying GIF image at the background as map

• To: khalid daher <khandah@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Displaying GIF image at the background as map
• From: Bill Hibbard <billh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:28:38 -0500 (CDT)

Hi Khalid,

> I have meteorological data to display with a ma pat the baground.
> And I have a map as gif image file.
> How can I do this ?

One problem will be that a map in a GIF file will be hard to
geo-reference (i.e., align GIF pixels with latitude and
longitude). For a good general start at learning VisAD, see
Ugo's excellent tutorial at:

  http://www.geogr.uni-jena.de/~p6taug/visad/tutorial/index.html

There are also numerous examples in the visad/examples
directory, including SatDisplay.java that overlays a map
(not from a GIF file) on a satellite image.

Good luck, Bill

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