tplace

Interactively place raster images into a very* zoomable canvas with translation, rotation, and scale, and render an XYZ tile set composed of the placed images.

* How zoomable? A typical tile-based slippy map supports zoom level 0 to roughly 30. The maximum safely representable number in JavaScript is roughly 253. So it's safe to assume a typical tile-based slippy map supports at most 253 tile rows or columns at maximum zoom, making the maximum zoom 53. tplace uses shardedmapview in order to splice together a huge number of standard slippy maps into one global slippy map, thereby supporting 2253 tile rows or columns at maximum zoom, making the maximum zoom 253.

You can use shardedmapview to render your very zoomy tile set. Example: Powers of Ten, an interactive remake of the famous film. Powers of Ten zooms from the known universe (14 light years) to the interior of a proton (10-15 meters), or 150 zoom levels.

1. Install

Install globally with yarn or npm and you'll get the tplace binary in your command line.

sudo yarn global add tplace

or

npm install -g tplace

2. Place raster images into a slippy canvas

tplace edit

TODO: screencast gif of basic placement interaction

Placed images and their positions, rotations, and scales are stored in the current working directory.

3. Render an XYZ tile set

tplace render png8

or

tplace render jpeg

with custom zoom range

tplace render jpeg --min-zoom -70 --max-zoom 50

These render an XYZ tile set into tiles/ in the current working directory, variably using 8-bit PNG or JPEG compression. 8-bit PNG is good for web delivery of low color graphic art. Sorry, you can't set the JPEG quality or use PNG24 right now :/

The zoom range defaults to something, but you can control the min and/or max.

Super alpha incomplete but capable software available to you with no warranty!