Re: [Commons-l] Djatoka

2010-03-15 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, This is the answer I received.. It would be quite possible to index the offsets of each article and render a view that presents the article based on the width of the column, screen, etc. This would only really be helpful if pixel-based imagery is necessary, otherwise a text or vector based

Re: [Commons-l] Djatoka

2010-03-13 Thread Lars Aronsson
Tim Alder wrote: So I experiment a little bit with TMS[1] and create: http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/zoom-image/tms/ To create this tiles I use the opensource tool GDAL2tiles.[2] I also test Zoomify so if you want to compare: http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/zoom-image/ but I think we need

Re: [Commons-l] Djatoka

2010-03-11 Thread Michael Peel
Is the image actually too big for MediaWiki to handle, or just too big for the maximum file upload size as currently set? Are there limiting factors within the Mediawiki software or the image tools that it uses that prevent rescaling of large images for online viewing? I would love to see

Re: [Commons-l] Djatoka

2010-03-11 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The file of the story cloth is almost 1 gigabyte. MediaWiki will download a picture from top to bottom. This is prohibitively expensive and also the user experience is not good... Think also about those poor people who use wikipedia on their mobile !! Rescaling makes sense up to a point. The