Developer’s Corner: Smart transparency in GeoServer with image/vnd.jpeg-png format
Dear reader, today we would like to introduce a new feature in GeoServer: smart transparency with image/vnd.jpeg-png format. When dealing with satellite and aerial imagery the JPEG output format is often preferred for its fast encoding and small output size. However, there are cases in which transparency is needed, maybe because the imagery is not covering the whole map area, or maybe because the user is free to select only certain image strips, and seeing though the basemap is a requirement. Thus far those scenarios were handled by falling back on the PNG format, paying the extra encoding time and size. To...
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