On Nov 21, 2007 7:02 AM, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
We mainly don't have higher resolution image files because people aren't uploading high-resolution image files to start with, not because the high-resolution JPGs or TIFFs which we have Just Aren't Good Enough(TM).
And people aren't uploading high-resolution image files because they can't. If the upload limit were increased, there are plenty of US-govt TIFFs that could be added to Commons and greatly improve our usability.
Generally I've processed Library of Congress TIFFs to JPEGs because the vast majority of our users will not want to download a 20GB image.
Ideally, I suppose, we should allow the upload of both a source image and a processed version 'for use' - the source image could be PNG for those natively available in TIFF, or DNG for those natively available in a RAW format.
-Matt