Comments on: Unix command-line tile cutter for Google Maps

By: Ian Stevens

Ian Stevens — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:06:46 +0000

Sorry Martoosh, this utility just cuts an existing image into tiles suitable for Google Maps. It does not do the reverse. There are apps that do this. Search for “google maps tile stitcher” or something similar.

By: Martoosh

Martoosh — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:56:46 +0000

Hi Ian,

I’m looking for a tool that will allow me to cut out a section from a map online, from google maps for instance.

Is this the function of the Unix command-line tile cutter? Forgive my ignorance, I am a social worker (not a computer scientist) and am not literate with tools - however I’m trying to create a document and such a tool would be useful.

Thank you, best,
Marta

By: Bo Bjerregaard

Bo Bjerregaard — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:01:39 +0000

Hi Ian,

I’ve been using googletilecutter, and so far I’m pretty happy with the results, great work!

But at the moment I’m running into some issues cutting tiles so I can zoom in on them.

I have a source-map, which has coords 34623, 20350 @ zoom-level 16, that I’ve used googletilecutter to cut up into 9 tiles. I want to be able to zoom further in on the map, how would I be able to do this? I’ve tried cutting up the resulting tiles into more tiles to get another zoomlevel, but it just doesn’t work…

I hope you can help me out :)

~Bo

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By: Ian Stevens

Ian Stevens — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:12:52 +0000

Hi Peter. My tile cutter requires you to install ImageMagick, which you do not have installed. If you’re under a Debian variant, running apt-get imagemagick should solve the problem.

Admittedly, a more suitable error message should be output, and I’ve created a ticket reflecting this. Unfortunately, the script won’t auto-install missing packages.

I hope this helps. If you’re still having problems, let me know.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:11:10 +0000

What do I need to do to get this up and running. Do you have a easy cant go wrong guide to how to cut up tiles. So far all the examples online are sparse to say the least and there is no easy all you need to do to create your own tiles is…

1. get an image of the world like this one… i.e.
2. using the following …..
3. running the script under linux you will need to make sure you install X and Y via apt-get, yum or whatever package manager you use…

At the moment when I run your script i get the following:

Advpng or pngcrush not found. Using no PNG compression.
Padding image …
./googletilecutter.sh: line 140: identify: command not found
./googletilecutter.sh: line 152: convert: command not found
Generating tiles …
./googletilecutter.sh: line 161: convert: command not found
Renumbering and compressing tiles …
ls: /tmp/map-HUzlU1-tile*: No such file or directory

Any info would be appreciated!

Thanks

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By: Ian Stevens

Ian Stevens — Fri, 11 May 2007 00:54:46 +0000

Hm, there are a number of things wrong here. This shouldn’t be running under csh. Find out where your bash shell is and change the first line of the script to reflect that. It might be /usr/bin/bash, not /bin/bash.

It also looks like identify can’t parse your .tif file and is failing to pad it. Not sure why.

By: Eli

Eli — Thu, 10 May 2007 04:16:40 +0000

Hi Ian,

I’m interested in using your sh script that you wrote, but an error keeps coming up when trying to initiate the program. Here’s the output of the command when trying to use it.

eli% tilecutter -o 15 -t 772,571 -z 15 ds9.tif
csh: .: Command not found.
/usr/bin/tilecutter: line 111: [: too many arguments
csh: .: Command not found.
Using pngcrush for compression.
Padding image …
identify: ds9.tif: unknown field with tag 34665 (0×8769) encountered..
convert: ds9.tif: unknown field with tag 34665 (0×8769) encountered..
Generating tiles …
Renumbering and compressing tiles …
identify: unable to open file `/tmp/map-XXXXXX.OViCcJKb-tile-0′: No such file or directory.
identify: unable to open file `/tmp/map-XXXXXX.OViCcJKb-tile-1′: No such file or directory.
identify: unable to open file `/tmp/map-XXXXXX.OViCcJKb-tile-2′: No such file or directory.
identify: unable to open file `/tmp/map-XXXXXX.OViCcJKb-tile-3′: No such file or directory.
identify: unable to open file `/tmp/map-XXXXXX.OViCcJKb-tile-4′: No such file or directory.
identify: unable to open file `/tmp/map-XXXXXX.OViCcJKb-tile-5′: No such file or directory.
identify: unable to open file `/tmp/map-XXXXXX.OViCcJKb-tile-6′: No such file or directory.
identify: unable to open file `/tmp/map-XXXXXX.OViCcJKb-tile-7′: No such file or directory.
identify: unable to open file `/tmp/map-XXXXXX.OViCcJKb-tile-8′: No such file or directory.
identify: unable to open file `/tmp/map-XXXXXX.OViCcJKb-tile-9′: No such file or directory.
identify: unable to open file `/tmp/map-XXXXXX.OViCcJKb-tile-10′: No such file or directory.
identify: unable to open file `/tmp/map-XXXXXX.OViCcJKb-tile-11′: No such file or directory.

Any clues as to where I should start looking into?

Thanks for your consideration and writing such a program.

Cheers,

Eli