Not sure why there are two .map files with the same name
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Uploaded to MapFinder and OG's map repo.
Done, available at Mapfinder and OG's map repo
Thank youLuisGuzman wrote: ↑2023-01-25 20:03, Wednesday Done, available at Mapfinder and OG's map repo
But check it in MapFinder please, as it took too long to upload both the png and the jpg
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That is correct. When i created the files with photoshop, the jpg also had a bigger file size.
Only thatFor automatic download, I upload the .jpg file received from mapmaker if available, otherwise I convert the .png file using IrfanView with a 70% compression ratio.
The compression rate is a little bit misleading anyway. I save the jpg with 50% quality in photoshop. I found that it is a good compromise between file size and quality. So with every handling / compression of the file later, the quality can not get batter than the initial 50% anyway.sympatyk wrote: ↑2023-01-26 15:08, Thursday Randowe, I agree with you![]()
It was information for Luis
Remember when we talked about maps and Luis wrote
Only thatFor automatic download, I upload the .jpg file received from mapmaker if available, otherwise I convert the .png file using IrfanView with a 70% compression ratio.
Done!randowe wrote: ↑2023-02-18 20:07, Saturday HelloA new map is finished. I'll submit the jpg file only because the png has more than 6mb. If somebody needs the png for map making, please let me know.
Number: 1583
Name: Harpers Ferry (3K)
Location: USA
Period: WWII
Map size: 3150;3000
Comment: mod of maps 1420; 1487
Uploaded to MapFinder and OG's repo
Done! - the map is available from OG's repoMaXX_Oltt wrote: ↑2023-03-09 11:33, Thursday![]()
New map is finished
Number: 50029
Name: Siauliai (3K)
Location: Lithuania
Period: WWII
Map size: 3300;3300
Comment: the map represents the area from East Prussia to Liepaja (Libava). Due to historic period all names in East Prussia area are given as their original German ones - Tilsit instead of Sovetsk, Insterburg instead of Chernyakhovsk etc.
Good point !!!, honestly I do not remember which solution we did for last king-size map
Csaba added the XXL map picture and mapx files to the OG website. But it hasn't been updated for a long time and the latest ones are missing:LuisGuzman wrote: ↑2023-03-10 11:12, Friday
Good point !!!, honestly I do not remember which solution we did for last king-size map![]()
Of course I can send by email to you, so you can upload it to .pl repo, but if anyone remember what we did for previous one, it would be nice to follow the rule (if any)![]()
Currently 5 maps are missing --> 50025 to 50029Csaba added the XXL map picture and mapx files to the OG website. But it hasn't been updated for a long time and the latest ones are missing:
http://www.open-general.com/mapxs.php?o ... a=&omu=xxl
Uploaded ... but could not load the .png file to MapFinder, as the speed was so slow that all the time connection was broken due to timeout.
Yes I think this is the best choicerandowe wrote: ↑2023-03-12 20:26, Sunday How do you want to proceed?
Should i send you the png file only and you process it with your program?
Then you can upload the jpg you created to mapfinder and dismiss the png.
I don't know which is the best option, but surely we can save space when we dismiss the png files.
Not sure if there is a consensus, but here it is what I'll do until any consensus is eventually agreed:
All rightLuisGuzman wrote: ↑2023-04-01 11:07, SaturdayActually that is what I do for every map, except the 3rd step and that I didn't check que quality of the JPG when sent by the mapmaker.
- I'll convert any png file 24 or 32 bpp to 256 colors to upload to Mapfinder.
- I'll run the script launching the set of png optimizers.
- If the size of the png is bigger than 4.700.000 bytes (though I have to talk Sebastian yet, so maybe this threshold will be lowered later) I'll upload only a converted jpg quality 70.
- I'll run a script to generate the 4 jpg (real size, 500x500, 200x200 and 100x100) quality 70.
When the mapmaker sends me a jpg real size quality 70 the script already skips creating the real size jpg, so the one sent by the mapmaker is uploaded.
Currently there are 9 png bigger than 4.700.000 and 27 more which are bigger than 4.000.000.
Only 10/29 of the big maps (500xx.jpg) are bigger than 4.000.000 bytes.
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Finally I got to upload to MapFinder. It lately turns suddenly to upload very slow (less than 8 kb/s) which result in several time-outs
Done, it is available at OG's repo and also to MapFinder, although jpgs size 200 and size 500 could not be uploaded ... and don't know the reason
I added Polish names and German names in brackets. If you study old maps or documents you most likely find the names in one language only, so it is good to have both in the map. For example, recently i read the attchments to the war diary of Brigade Netze, which was active in the area of the map 1939 and they only use the German names.
Strange that upload is so slow nowadays. Download is as fast as ever. But we won't get many more new maps, so maybe for the next 1 or 2 maps upload will still workLuisGuzman wrote: ↑2023-10-28 18:22, Saturday Done, it is available at OG's repo and also to MapFinder, although jpgs size 200 and size 500 could not be uploaded ... and don't know the reason
Anyway MapFinder is lately rather slow getting ratios like 8 KB/s and even 640 B/s (less than 1 kb/s)
It is uploaded to MapFinder and OG's map reporandowe wrote: ↑2023-11-10 21:36, FridayAnother map is finished:
Number: 1590
Name: Moscow (3K)
Location: Russia
Period: WWII
Map size: 3150;3000
I added only names for the rivers because i could not see where one city district ends and where and other begins. And there are many suburbs and city districts. So i refrained from naming any city hex.
Finally available at MapFinder and OG repo.
It's an error. I'll always upload original files to discord. There i can easily upload the rar files without hosting.