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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: JPEG2000 Image Servers
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005
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Oops! It sounds like Joel wants me to get in touch with myself, which is
probably not a bad idea. I have, however, retired from my job at Stony
Brook.
Yes, I have been engaged in a fairly extensive discussion concerning
JPEG2000 on MapHist, as some of your have doubtless noticed. But that
discussion
has been about a somewhat different topic.
My message to Maps-L concerns people's experience with server software,
which is essential if one wants to distribute images quickly in
"packets" for
those with slow connections.
In the course of the MapHist discussion, I discovered that it is
possible to
view JPEG2000 images without special server software, but it takes a long
time to download the images. If the JPEG2000 images are compressed to a
very
high ratio (like 1:100), the download times may not be unacceptable,
although
the image quality suffers somewhat. These images can be viewed with any
browser equipped with a jp2 plugin, such as IrfanView or the MrSID
Express View
plugin. This may not be a bad solution for those who do not have
access to
the necessary server software, but it is still a second best solution.
For those who are curious, I have set up a page with further information
at
_http://members.cox.net/dyallen/Block.htm_
(http://members.cox.net/dyallen/Block.htm) . The page includes two
versions of a scanned Map of New
Netherland from the American Geographical Society Library. One image
is compressed at 1:25
(the default), the other at 1:100. I would be curious to hear what people
think about the quality of the 1:100 compression.
David Allen
La Mesa, CA
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