Creating a fake map image file

[lch]

llamabeast said:
The server seems to include the province positions in the trn file, oddly. So all the provinces end up cluster together in one corner of the map once you look at the trn file at the client end.

Wow, that's really odd.

llamabeast said:
Okay, web stuff is very far from being my forte. What's the idea here? The computer at the client end runs the program contained within the web page to alter the map image before it's uploaded, so that the actual data uploaded is already altered and hence small? Or something different?

Yes, exactly that. If you use a Java applet the idea would be to do the white-pixel-filtering on the client side. You could do it in ActiveX for MSIE, but Java is more portable. And while Java applets were bringing browsers to a grinding halt about 10 years ago, they're quite fast and usable now.