{"id":2949,"date":"2020-03-04T12:18:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T17:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/support.firstbasesolutions.com\/mapcast\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2020-03-04T12:47:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T17:47:58","slug":"will-i-save-mapcast-bandwidth-by-using-jpg-instead-of-png","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/support.firstbasesolutions.com\/mapcast\/2020\/03\/04\/will-i-save-mapcast-bandwidth-by-using-jpg-instead-of-png\/","title":{"rendered":"Will I save MapCast bandwidth by using JPG instead of PNG?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the changes\nwe\u2019ve made to the MapCast service was to equalize the usage cost per image\nregardless of what image format was selected when using the WMS service.&nbsp;\nAs you may know our WMS service can serve images in JPEG or PNG format\ndepending on your settings in your GIS or CAD application, these image formats\nboth have their advantages and disadvantages; JPEG images are highly compressed\nresulting in smaller file sizes but lower quality images while PNG images have\nless compression with higher quality images that support transparencies but\nlarger file sizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With our new MapCast\nservice we automatically adjust the usage to reduce the cost of PNG images to\nbe in line with JPEG image.&nbsp; For some customers this may result in a\nsignificant savings allowing you to download more imagery from the service for\nthe same bandwidth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the changes we\u2019ve made to the MapCast service was to equalize the usage cost per image regardless of what image format was selected when using the WMS service.&nbsp; As you may know our WMS service can serve images in JPEG or PNG format depending on your settings in your GIS or CAD application, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[339,15],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bandwidth","tag-bandwidth","tag-formatting-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/support.firstbasesolutions.com\/mapcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/support.firstbasesolutions.com\/mapcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/support.firstbasesolutions.com\/mapcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/support.firstbasesolutions.com\/mapcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/support.firstbasesolutions.com\/mapcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/support.firstbasesolutions.com\/mapcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2950,"href":"http:\/\/support.firstbasesolutions.com\/mapcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions\/2950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/support.firstbasesolutions.com\/mapcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/support.firstbasesolutions.com\/mapcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/support.firstbasesolutions.com\/mapcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}