That is ridiculous sizes for pictures. Come on 1/4 to almost 1/2 gig for a
single pic?
For the average even professional quality images for professional
photographers anything over
2 to 4 meg each is huge.
For NASA they are using Clusters and Mainframes to pull these things. Next
the bandwidth will take you even via cable 1/2 hour to 2 hours pending on
you speed. Dial up forget the idea unless you have 14 to 18 hours.
They should have versions that are jpg and if you want to print or view
them.
IMHO
Bill Preece
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vernon Singleton" <vsingleton@cfl.rr.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] earth images
> With respect to the never ending quest to find the highest
> resolution, mercator projected, cloudless image of the earth that is
> freely available for download, and reasonably zoomable using open
> source software ...
>
> We finally got permission from NASA to download
> ftp://visibleearth.nasa.gov/pub/EARTHVIZ/land_shallow_topo_west.tif
> ftp://visibleearth.nasa.gov/pub/EARTHVIZ/land_shallow_topo_east.tif
> which are 251,842,464 bytes and 420,262,104 bytes respectively.
>
> Neither of them are viewable using gqview on my system,
> which has only 1/2 Gig of RAM:) Even for tifs that do load using gqview
> ... its zooming capablility is not very good.
>
> So ... if I had more RAM would the problem go away?
> Does someone else want to try?
> What open source viewer should I try next?
>
> Vernon Singleton
> Tried to set "Wrap plain text messages at 500 characters" under "Message
> Composition" in Moz mail -- still wrapped this line at what? ... about
> 70 characters? ... any ideas?
>
>
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