[Qgis-user] Problems with Natural Earth images

[Shriramana Sharma]

Thanks for your replies. Please see below for my further questions.

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.naturalearthdata.com/forums/topic/where-do-i-get-water-image-separately/
>
> You'll have to make it yourself by grabbing the vector layer with oceans
> and overlaying that on top of whatever land you want, then style it
> yourself.

Is it possible to get the same effect as seen in the official
downloads with water i.e it's somewhat lighter near the shores but
blends to a constant blue tint (i.e. not bathymetric) for the oceans.

>> http://www.naturalearthdata.com/forums/topic/border-thickness-problem-in-plain-cross-blend-hypso/
>>
> Was that a compressed png? did you try an uncompressed one? are you sure
> you kept the same image resolution? Did you try loading it in QGIS and
> doing a gdal_translate. FYI JPEG might come out better but why can't you
> just keep it a tiff?

Even if I do it to a TIFF the problem remains the same. As I pointed
out in the post above, even the official download page shows a blocked
strait of Gibraltar!

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Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा