On Nov 21, 2007 7:02 AM, Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)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