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Image Cutter

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What is it and who is it for?

Image Cutter is an application designed to take any image or a digital photo and cut it into tiles.  These can be subsequently displayed on a Google Map. Using this tool, large images can be published on the web in a format that allow the user to pan and zoom using the standard Google Maps interface.  This tool has been used for displaying everything from medical images to art collections.

Although publishing large digital photos is the most obvious application, this technique can be used for annotated maps of an area that are not to scale e.g. directions for how to get to the office. 

This tool has been used by everyone from medical imaging specialists to Art galleries wishing to display hi-res images of their collections on the web.
 

Credits: ImageCutter was developed by GeoVUE, based at University College London, which was the part of NCeSS which researched Geographic Simulation.  GeoVUE has now evolved into GENeSIS node, which is researching generative eSocial Science.