Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Tracks
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[edit] Map of Alma
I have taken some liberties with your image of Alma. I found that the image was 1,124,365 bytes (24 bits/16 million colors). I did a little work and found that by converting the image to 8 bits (256 colors) (non-interlaced & optimized palette) (.png) the image reduced down to 91,902. However, converting to .jpg (24 bits) and with a compression of 43% the image yieled a size of 27,195 bytes with no distortion.
- Summary:
- Original file: 1,124,365 bytes (.png)
- Experimental .png : 91,902 bytes
- New file: 27,195 bytes
An administrator told me that they were not concerned with file sizes. I believe Wikipedia could, in the future, be bogged down in large files.
I will give you full credit on the updated image page.
Noles1984 14:36, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
- Actually, since all revisions of an image are stored on the server, we now have a 91 KB file and a 1 MB file as well. Titoxd(?!?) 19:18, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
- While standard PNG files are quite inefficient, converting to paletted PNG or to compressed JPEG format is lossy and DOES have distortion (however small). If size is a concern it would be better to change the track generator program to put new images into the desired format rather than convert all old ones. Note that the amount of old track images is huge (see the commons) and converting any reasonable number of them by hand would be a daunting and error-prone task. — jdorje (talk) 03:49, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Direction of tracks
In looking at some of the tracks, I came to think that it might be beneficial to have some indication where the storm formed and where it died. For some storms, it's hard to tell what direction the storm took along the indicated path. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.220.47.130 (talk) 18:10, August 23, 2007 (UTC)
