[gdal-dev] MapServer's image quality stinks serving up these NOAA NRCs

[Vincent Schut]

Gregor,

Glad it worked!
Those kap files are single-band colortable images, right? I'd use 
nearest neighbour interpolation than, for gdalwarp, instead of bilinear. 
Simple removing the '-rb' switch from your gdalwarp command should do 
the trick, as nn is the default. Imho it usually makes not much sense to 
interpolate colortable indices, except when this colortable is some 
representation of a more or less continuous gradient.


Gregor Mosheh wrote:
> Vincent Schut wrote:
>>>> Color depth: gdalwarp on the KAPs generates 8-bit palleted TIFFs. 
>>>> That may not be the best for quality.
> 
>>>> ^^This point might be your main issue.
>> I think you can use gdal's pct2rgb.py utility for that.
> 
> Sounds good; I've given that a try.
> My procedure from NOAA NRCs to GeoTIFFs is as follows:
> 
> gdalwarp -tps -rb -t_srs EPSG:4326 $kap $tif0
> pct2rgb.py $tif0 $tif1
> gdal_translate -quiet -co TILED=YES -srcwin $x $y $w $h $tif1 $tif2
> gdaladdo -r average $tif2 2 4 8 16 32
> 
> I think it looks pretty good. It's not as good as their hand-groomed 
> PNGs, but it's a significant improvement!
>