Horrible Looking WMS Raster Imagery

[Jennifer Zeisloft]

Hi Frank,

Thanks for the response, Frank.  It is sounding more and more like this is a
question I ought to forward to the chameleon list - because I am also not
sure how to generate 24bit output with chameleon!

I appreciate the much needed direction!

Thanks all!

Jennifer

On 1/23/06, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/23/06, Brent Pedersen <bpederse at nature.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > have you tried using image/jpeg?
>
> In addition to fetching data from the remote WMSes as
> JPEG, it is also necessary for mapserver to generate 24bit
> output (JPEG or PNG24 for instance).  I don't know how to
> do that with Chameleon myself, but I'm sure there is a setting
> somewhere.
>
> I think Ed is right that the problem is 24bit to 8bit color
> conversion with correspondingly poor color resolution.
> Given sufficient blotchiness from this conversion it can
> even appear that spatial resolution is degraded (though it
> isn't actually).
>
> Best regards,
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