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Over the years I have managed to acquire a few old maps of Mirfield; samples of which can be viewed on this page.
Converting maps to a format suitable for viewing on the web is a real pain, have you ever tried scanning a 1.5 Metre square sheet of paper on an A4 scanner?!
Obviously the secret is to do it in small sections and then edit them back together using a package such as COREL DRAW.
You then have a nice digital image of the map but one very large file. By resizing the map the file size can be reduced to a more manageable size.
Care needs to be taken while doing this because below a certain size the maps resolution will be reduced to such a point the image will become illegible.
The file size can be still further reduced by converting it to a compressed format (JPEG,GIF etc).
JASC PAINT SHOP PRO has some very good optimiser functions plus the ability to preview images in a web browser for doing this.
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