Image resolution

Lluís Garcia i Mestres lluisgm at GMAIL.COM
Tue Apr 19 03:40:19 EDT 2005


I didn´t change the image size, it's the original from the tfw. My tif
is a composition of 6 RGB and is displayed as a raster layer in the
correct position. The resolution of the image and the map is the
same:72 dpi.

The output format is png, and I think the problem should be there.

Lluís


On 4/19/05, Jacob Delfos <jacob.delfos at maunsell.com> wrote:
> Is your map-image being displayed at its normal resolution, or did you
> specify a size for the image ( <img width=x height=x ) which does not match
> your map-image size?
> Or are you by any chance using GIF as an output format? Or another format
> that is not rgb? Sometimes using indexed colour (8bit, 256 colours) can
> create the illusion of reduced resolution, because pixels of similar colour
> get merged.
>  
> Regards,
>  
> Jacob
>  
>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Lluís Garcia i Mestres
> Sent: 18 April 2005 22:04
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Image resolution
>  
> Hi 
>  
> I'm working with a tif file of 0,5 meter per pixel. I don't know why,
> when I check this tif out of mapserver the quality is greater than
> when I display it in my mapserver application. I´ve try with different
> resolution in the map file but the quality is still the same.
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Lluís
>



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