The best input format for best performance?

[Ed McNierney]

Janeks -

It might depend a bit on your usage model, but TIFF is certainly a very
good choice, and JPEG is a very poor choice.  It's not so much a matter
of compression (TIFF images can, optionally, be compressed, too) but the
style of compression JPEG uses.  You need to do a lot of decoding to get
just one pixel out of a JPEG image, and that is not the case for TIFF
images.

     - Ed

Ed McNierney
TopoZone.com

-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
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Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 4:04 AM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] The best input format for best
performance?

Hi, List!

Currently I have background layer in JPG format.
In ArcView TIFF format works faster (because uncompressed) will it be so
for
MapServer?
And which is the best format?

Janeks