OpenSeaDragon image viewer using image from Google Drive

Question

I have thousands of high-resolution images that I would like to display on my website. I would like to select an image from Google Drive, dynamically tile the image, and display it on the website using OpenSeaDragon. Is that possible? If so, how do I go about it? Thanks!

Answer 1

Can you get a link to the image on Google Drive? I assume so. Given that, you have a few options:

1. Paste the URL into https://openseadragon.github.io/openseadragonizer/. This should be plenty fine, as long as your image isn't terribly big; it loads the whole image and then tiles it in memory.
2. If your image is very large, you can paste its URL into https://zoomhub.net/, where it'll tile it on the server.
3. If you want to make your own viewer, follow the instructions on https://openseadragon.github.io/docs/. For the image tile source, try https://openseadragon.github.io/examples/tilesource-image/; this is what option 1 above uses.
4. If you're making your own viewer, and the images are too big to work with the simple image tile source, you'll want something like https://openseadragon.github.io/examples/tilesource-dzi/. You'll need to do the conversion yourself using something from https://openseadragon.github.io/examples/creating-zooming-images/.