TIFF rendering suffering in quality

[John B. Churchill]

On Mon, December 4, 2006 3:37 pm, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> John B. Churchill wrote:
>> Hi,
>>     I'm new to the list and also very new to MAPSERVER.  Please bear
>> with me.  I've started a map by replacing the ITASCA DEMO data with my
>> own data.  I'm having some trouble getting a DOQQ tif (true color) image
>> to display a reasonable image.   I've been reading about using the
>> OUTPUTFORMAT tag to tweek the way the output image looks (e.g. 24-bit).
>>  Can anyone help me figure out how I can best display this TIFF format
>> image.
>>
>> See My Description of the problem and my CODE here:
>> http://alx.al.umces.edu/~jchurch/GIS/tif_render.html
>
> John,
>
> Put the:
>
>    IMAGETYPE JPEG
>
> keyword in your MAP section.  The OUTPUTFORMAT declaration you provided
> has no effect unless you select the format, but for web purposes you
> likely
> don't want to be returning geotiffs, so just select JPEG or PNG24 - the
> two
> common 24bit image formats for the web.

THANKS ... that worked.  The IMAGETYPE was set to PNG.  When I changed it
to JPEG it looked great.