Cheers Mike,
CASA's free image cutter is another useful tool for cutting up high res pictures into tilesets that can be used with the Google Maps zooming interface:
http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2008/10/google-maps-for-fine-art-kremer.html
Here are two demos from the NMM collections:
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/experiments/gmap/BHC0929.html
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/experiments/gmap/G03631.html
Jim O'Donnell
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of Mike Ellis
>Sent: 29 June 2009 09:33
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Launch of Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery's
>Pre-Rapahelite website
>
>@Frankie - I like the Ajax one from MS, a lot..
>
>Also to add to the zoom list:
>
>This blog post: http://theflashblog.com/?p=351 (although the -
>interesting - example site didn't work for me...)
>
>And doing the zoom thing using Google Maps no less:
>
>http://forevermore.net/articles/photo-zoom/
>
>And don't forget the ace tutorial by Jim O'D (slightly
>different, conceptually, but it is still well worth pimping):
>
>http://eatyourgreens.org.uk/archives/2007/08/adding_a_magnif.html
>
>
>One of the interesting things that came out in the Bath MCG
>group meeting was the moment when Silverlight was sold as a
>way of NOT letting users at the raw high-res images behind.
>There was some quiet groaning from the audience (alright, me)
>but I suspect the (slightly depressing) reason that
>Silverlight is attractive to Museums is that it *prevents*
>download of big images (so Mia, I'm guessing that's why a
>large version isn't available if you don't have the plugin..).
>
>Unless the end user wants to get
>screengrab/Photoshop/patch-it-together-tastic, that is...
>
>ta
>
>Mike
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