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Proceed with Adding XYZ Tile Layers to Fulcrum. Īfter confirming that the service is compatible: 'Single Fused Map Cache', Spatial Reference: 102100 (Web Mercator), 256x256px, we can proceed. Loading these services into Fulcrum is fairly straightforward:įind the MapServer endpoint for the service you are interested in. The state makes this imagery available via their Discover GIS Data NY program, which includes a web application and direct access to their cached map services. The New York Statewide Digital Orthoimagery Program (NYSDOP) has been producing orthoimagery annually for various portions of the state since 2000. Dynamic services are not directly consumable in Fulcrum. ArcGIS supports a variety of formats, but if the data is available via the REST API as a cached map service with a Web Mercator projection, it should be compatible with Fulcrum.

Many governments and organizations manage their geospatial data in ESRI's ArcGIS ecosystem. Be sure also to check the terms of service and usage restrictions for any service you want to use and sign up for your own API tokens where applicable. Be aware that API's can change often and without warning, so these techniques are not guaranteed to work forever.

The guide below walks you through the steps required to add map layers from a variety of popular web mapping and GIS platforms. If you want to include features like tax parcel boundaries or water mains to help provide location context while you are collecting data, this is a great solution. This allows you to include custom external basemaps and GIS overlays from a variety of sources. See also the Potential natural vegetation map for eastern Africa for an example of a Google Earth layer created with MapTiler.Fulcrum supports XYZ tiles in the standard Web Mercator projection on both the web and mobile platforms. The Potential Natural Vegetation map for Central and Southwest Kenya is an example of mash-up map created with MapTiler, with some adaptations of the page layout and the addition of a legend. System(paste('convert -transparent white ',tfwp, ' ', tfwp, sep='')) # convert background color to transparent # Loop to set transparency and optimize the png images Tfwp <- list.files(path = '/home/paulo/vegethiopia', pattern = 'png', all.files = FALSE, full.names = TRUE, recursive = TRUE) Of course you can use your own favorite scripting or programming language to do the same. I wrote a small script in R to convert the background color to transparent and to process all PNG tiles generated by MapTiler using the PNGNQ utility. You probably want to automate this because depending on the zoom level selected in MapTiles, there are potentially thousands of png files.

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I am doing this after the PNG tiles have been created at the same time I am optimizing the map tile images to speed up the download and save space on the server.Īs described in this blog the PNGNQ tool is excellent for post-processing of PNG tiles generated from MapTiler/GDAL2Tiles. See this post.Īs an alternative I am using ImageMagick to convert the image to png and make the pixels containing NODATA transparent. UPDATE: This now works for me, so the steps below should not be needed. There is an option in MapTiler to set a transparency for a color (NODATA), but for some reason this doesn’t work for me. For the map to blend well with the background maps the NODATA pixels should be transparent. MapTiler offers a wizard like interface which leads you step by step through the process. The resulting file can be used in MapTiler to create map mashups for Google Earth, Google Maps or OpenLayer. To export the vegetation map from my GRASS GIS database to a georeferenced image, I used the r.out.tiff function. MapTiler requires a georeferences image file as input. Apart from the version mentioned in this post, I also created a version with MapTiler. The map together with documentation was initially made available on CD-ROM.

For a project a few years ago we created a vegetation map for central and southwest Kenya (see here for more information).

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