[projectaon] Re: 01HH Map
- From: Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:56:02 +0100
David Davis wrote:
Looks good.
One thing you can do with PNG, which will usually drastically reduce
filesize,
is use "paletted" colours. For a map like that, where there's really
only a dozen or so
block colours intended (I suspect that the variations are more due to
vaguaries of ink take-up
on the paper stock, and the scanning process), it should be fairly easy
to define them all
as palette colours.
You can do this in Paint Shop Pro.
Should be a much smaller file than a 24-bit colour PNG.
I dropped the number of colours down to 32,000. (The next option was a massive
drop down to 256 colours, which was fine for the actual map, but made the
surrounding illustrations look poor.) What I consider to be the final version is
now here:
<http://www.projectaon.org/staff/simon/FW01HH_Map(New)2(NewLabels)3(200dpi,%2032K%20colours).png>
Barring the need to move labels around it's ow done. I'm also working on doing
the same to the maps for FW2-4. 2 and 3 are mostly done, and I hope to get 4
done over the weekend.
I'm sure it sounds very geeky, but it's surprisingly enjoyable to restore these
maps--and more than just restore, make them usable! Why did they choose the same
colour red for roads as for altitude/military reservations? The roads literally
disappear at some points! These will be fixed . . . :-) I'll post links to those
when they're done.
Oh! And before I forget, can someone with knowledge of US geography help me out,
please? According to the text of 01HH, DC1 are travelling to Big Spring.
According to the map, it is called Big Springs. Which is right?
--
Simon Osborne
Project Aon
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