[OAM-talk] a dramatically simplified technical proposal

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:28:55AM +0200, Maurizio wrote:
> Thanks for the outline.
>
>> Image tiles should be 256x256 pixels in 8- or 24-bit compressed PNG format
>
> Being a tile person my main concern is that tile format is being too 
> tightly restricted leaving out the vast majority of image tile formats 
> currently in use:

I agree with this, for two reasons:

 1. It doesn't match anything else. 
 2. It's a very poor match for photographic imagery.

I understand the desire for transparency, but I'm not entirely sure
how we see it being used. Other than that use case, JPG is a far better
format for delivery of data; it will be a huge cost savings in bandwidth
alone, and is the 'standard' for delivery of photographic data, so doing
anything else feels wrong.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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