Orthorectifying infrared plant monitoring map in Knitter

 

For those who are comfortable doing their map stitching in Photoshop, but for whom the GDAL tools for creating an online version of that map (a tileset) are a bit overwhelming, it does work to just take your Photoshop map and upload it to Knitter: cartagen.org/maps

 

Here's an example:

 

cartagen.org/maps/lima-morflex-nrg

 

then i pressed Export in the upper right corner, and it generated a GeoTiff (a geo-tagged Tiff), a TMS tile service, and an OpenLayers viewer:

 

cartagen.org/tms/lima-morflex-nrg/openlayers.html

 

This makes sense because Knitter is built on GDAL -- however, it can be a much easier interface for creating all the export formats.

 

It's also just a great way to share your maps online -- sometimes if you send a link around to a gigantic TIFF file you made in Photoshop, it crashes peoples' browsers when they try to open it... yikes.

Done