Creating a tile layer in MapViewer
Hi
We're using MapViewer 11g for a client's application. We have been given a set of image tiles they would like to use as a background to their maps. These are in the format Z/X/Y.png where Z is the zoom level, and using a spherical mercator projection. I understand this is the same as Google Maps uses for tiles?
To view these tiles as a background in MapViewer we initially came up with these possible approaches:
1. Configure MapViewer to use the tiles directly from the file system.
2. Load the tiles into a database table, with appropriate geometry to identify them, and configure MapViewer to use that.
3. Write a WMS wrapper to present the tiles, and configure MapViewer to use the WMS.
We don't know if (1) or (2) are feasible. We have used MapViewer to display a WMS so we know (3) is feasible, but it seems to be a lot of work if there is a better way.
We would be very grateful to hear anyone's experience of doing the same sort of thing, or suggestions on any of these approaches.
Many thanks
Mike