Code for Zooming an image

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Hi,
I'm Rudra, I'm working on Project for the Client Indian Army. I need to develope a form which loads India map and various buttons on it. Out of that 1 is zoom.
Can you please help me by providing code for that

Posted 27-Jun-11 19:58pm

Rudra Gouda

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Chris C-B 28-Jun-11 2:17am

Are the maps raster or vector data? What format?

Christian Graus 28-Jun-11 2:36am

Please do not ask variations of the same question over and over. Ask once, clarify and use the 'comment' button to seek further detail.

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Wow. Zoom is so trivial, that I feel bad for the Indian Army. You just draw the portion of the image you want to view, at the size you want to view it. You would start by not using a picture box, handling the paint event, and drawing your own image. Then, you can control which portion you draw, at what size.

Posted 27-Jun-11 20:05pm

Christian Graus

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Rudra Gouda 28-Jun-11 2:10am

Thanks for ur reply Christian, but code should be such that it should double the view with same clearity

CPallini 28-Jun-11 3:26am

As already explained you cannot get 'the same clearity' however you may get 'quite nice' zoomed image using a filter. Have a look at this article:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/GDI-plus/imgresizoutperfgdiplus.aspx

Christian Graus 28-Jun-11 2:15am

Well, then you and the Indian army are in trouble. If you're looking at an image 1:1, and you try to zoom it at twice the size of the actual image, it will not look too bad, but it won't be as clear as it was, you can't write code to invent pixels. You can do a bilinear or bucubic filter, but that's basically an intelligent blur to make the image look nicer, not clearer. I have articles on Code Project with image filters on them, the article on resizing images shows how to implement these filters, but, again, they are blur filters, they are NOT going to give you an endlessly sharp image.

Solution 2

how about bing maps.

http://www.bing.com/maps/#JnE9LmluZGlhJTdlc3N0LjAlN2VwZy4xJmJiPTYzLjEwMDE2ODUyMDA5ODUlN2UtNzkuMDMwNjg1NDI0NSU3ZTI1Ljg1MDIxMDA4ODQyNTYlN2UtMTU0LjUyODczMjI5OTU=[^]

There's a codeplex thing on it.
http://www.codeplex.com/site/search?query=bing%20maps&ac=3[^]
there are several implentations in there of "maps with form controls".

Posted 27-Jun-11 20:21pm

keyboard warrior

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Christian Graus 28-Jun-11 2:23am

Or google maps, for that matter, if he wants to load generic maps, and not ones that he has on hand.

keyboard warrior 28-Jun-11 2:24am

google...maps...indeed...

next thing you know you'll be using their search engine too!

Christian Graus 28-Jun-11 2:26am

ROTFL - I use google and google maps, because why would I change to something MS did later, and is not as good ? They need to do it first, to capture me, or better, to make me change. :-)

Rudra Gouda 28-Jun-11 2:37am

Can u pls give the code for the same........
Zoomin in and out of the image at the button click

Christian Graus 28-Jun-11 2:42am

You asked this twice and now you have code. Honestly, this is how the Indian ARMY does things ? Don't you have nukes ? I am scared now. Do you have map images locally, or not ? If you do, you CAN'T zoom without losing quality, but the (trivial) code you've been given, is how you do zooming.

Solution 5

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/featuredzoomer.htm[^]

follow this link

Posted 28-Jun-11 0:39am

Mohd Wasif

Solution 4

u can use jquerys.In jquerys Zoom of images.

Posted 27-Jun-11 21:51pm

shyamsai

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Pete O'Hanlon 28-Jun-11 3:53am

This really doesn't answer the question because mapping is a lot different to zooming in on an image. Have a look at the answer I gave to understand why this is so.

Christian Graus 28-Jun-11 4:02am

Wow - dumbest answer ever. He's not even writing a web app.

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Pete O'Hanlon · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-27T21:23:00

Ah, my area of expertise. First of all, you haven't stated what GIS system you are using. While you could use Bing or Google for this, typically secure systems (such as used by the military) require mapping to be hosted on dedicated servers in safe areas that they control.

Mapping imagery typically comes in two formats; raster and vector, with raster mapping being used to show low levels of detail (in other words, this covers the whole country, and down a few levels). At some point, the raster mapping gives way to vector mapping, which can be zoomed into without losing fidelity, unlike the raster mapping which is stretched while being zoomed into.

Each decent GIS provider has their own API, which provides all the functions that you need to perform the zooming. Have a read of the API documentation and figure out what you need there.

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