Hi Frank: Thanks for your reply. I'll try IMAGEMODE BYTE--if I remember correctly I tried it before and the results was a grayscale (although single band, yay!) image. I'll try to make it work for me.
Alex On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Frank Warmerdam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander Petkov wrote: >> >> Would it be possible to preserve the original data in an image (number >> of bands, and Type, and color interp) in the result of a GetCoverage >> request? For example, I serve Paletted Geotiffs through mapserver: > > ... >> >> Any hopes of being able to preserve the orig data after a GetCoverage >> request? > > Alex, > > The original pixel values can be preserved by picking an IMAGEMODE BYTE > outputformat, but unfortunately that will currently discard the palette. > > Basically there are two major rendering paths involved here. One is a > map view oriented one (GD'ish renders - IMAGEMODE RGB, RGBA or PC256) and > the other is a raw data oriented path (GDAL'ish renders - IMAGEMODE BYTE, > INT16 and FLOAT32). > > We could look at trying to preserve palettes and possible some other stuff > in the "raw data" case but I'm not terrible keen on doing this. > > Best regards, > -- > ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- > I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam > and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent > > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
