how i can design a map viewer web application with GIF map images? (AVL TRACKING SYSTEM)

Question

i am a student and my final project in gaduate study of Computer engineering is design and development a map viewer web application that must be used for an AVL tracking system. i am trying with applet in java. first, map images formate are GIF/JPG with big/large amount size(100MB). now, i want to find, how i break map images into smaller size and is true if i tiling images in order to showing on viewer, and how?

i program an coordinating application to convert lat/lng to pixels and vice versa, now i must to find what to doing with maps and find a method that is recommended to showing images of map in viewer.

if you have any idea to tiling or know about it.. or you recommend another method please help me thanks

Answer 1

Hello,

i may be completly off-track, but since you got long/lat, why don't you use a google map ? with a simple javascript timer, you could have quiclky a near real-time display.

the only problem would be the license and/or daily limit (this may not be a problem if this is not a live/productive system).

regards,

Guillaume

Answer 2

I would suggest you have a look at JAI for Java which has a class that implements tile based images. I have not used it much so i cannot get into specifics but what i know is that if you are looking for tile based images in Java JAI is the way to go.

So Google JAI and take it from there.