Quote "Interesting. Id never considered that. But it would be almost the same as zipping the files. On the one hand, more people probably have unzippers than have graphic converters. On the other hand, it would be easier to display the maps for download on a website. Hmmm no come to think of it making the maps viewable on a website isnt really a problem so ZIP would probably be better."
Gandalf Parker, I have to disagree about it being almost the same. jpegs are around 1/4 the size of a zipped tga file. here is my findings:
tga 1: 26,065,978 compressed to 8,781,802 zip file
tga 1: 26,065,978 converted to jpg : 2,891,790
tga 2: 39,233,987 compressed to a 12,103,218 zip file
tga 2: 39,233,987 converted to a 4,785,664 jpg
Big difference for dial up people, and a free graphics converter can be found at
http://www.softpile.com/Multimedia/I...830_index.html
I have dsl and the map files arent a problem, but i do remember my dial-up days. anyway, food for thought