Steve Hosgood wrote: >Sent: 19 October 2009 9:39 AM >To: dev@openstreetmap.org >Cc: 'josm-dev' >Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Out of copyright WMS offering - looking for >assistance > >Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: >> Oh, and I forgot the most important issue. The plug-in is looking for >png's >> when the ooc map tiles are all jpgs. >> >> Cheers >> >> Andy >> >> > >Must they be .jpgs? You'll get a lot of "sharp edge" artefacts using the >.jpg format on a map. In theory at least (and in practice whenever I've >done it) .png will give better results on material such as that. >
Bear in mind these are printed maps, not rasterised vector maps. We tried with png but you can get much lower file size without loosing too much definition with the jpg's. Now, if someone wants to spend the time proving me wrong they are welcome to a an original scan to try it. Cheers Andy > >Steve > > > > >_______________________________________________ >dev mailing list >dev@openstreetmap.org >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
