I am familiar with GIS, and did a lot of coverage studies back in the good old days when they wanted someone who knew some- thing about RF. Now they give a 12/hr wonder a box let them drive around for a few days, return the box, they pull the data out of the box, stuff it in a db, then they apply the GIS tools.
Back on the original thread, there are so many of them, and there are always updates, and they are mostly in that format. I am thinking that it must be a industry standard, as I have files from other vendors and they too are in TIFF. If it were just a few, I would have already done the conversion, but there are just too many. Thank you anyhow. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Tyrell Jentink <[email protected]> wrote: > My background is in GIS; I work a lot with GeoTIFFs (TIFF files with a > world file that tells a GIS where in the world that image belongs). They > are almost always single page TIFFs, so I don't have MUCH to offer in the > way of advice. Still, the idea occurs to me: Have you considered > converting them to PDFs? PDFs can be lossless, they can be multi-page, and > they can be viewed in many different viewers ;) > > It's probably not the solution you're looking for... But based on my > limited experience, it's probably what I would try first. > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Chuck Hast wrote: > > > > > Here is the link to some tiff samples: > > > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cl0drntnnj5w6vs/TfUaN2mHqd > > > > > I have imagemagic and it will display them but the 2nd page > > > is sort of grayed out, I can see the drawing but it is gray and > > > the lines are just deeper gray. > > > > Chuck, > > > > When I look at the three pages on dropbox.com, the first two pages > are > > so > > faint they're barely readable. The third page is sufficiently dark to be > > easily read. > > > > Perhaps the issues are with the .tif files and not the viewers? > > > > BTW, I get scanned documents from clients quite frequently. They're > all > > .jpg files and I wonder if whomever in the Engineering Department creates > > these drawings can scan them in a bit-mapped format other than TIFF. > > > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- Glass, five thousand years of history and getting better. The only container material that the USDA gives blanket approval on. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
