Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#19482 closed defect

JOSM adds blur to aerial imagery? — at Version 3

Reported by: dieterdreist Owned by: team
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Core Version:
Keywords: imagery, mapbox, blur Cc:

Description (last modified by dieterdreist)

This is nothing new but something I am experiencing for many years now. JOSM seems to blur the imagery on high zoomlevels. I am not sure it happens with every source (e.g. Bing does not seem so, but then they are blurry around here anyway, so I am not sure).
It seems to happen with mapbox imagery. Please look at the attached screenshots which show the unblurred and blurred layer.
Or maybe it is something that mapbox does upstream?

PS: It may not be completely evident from looking at the screenshots, but if you compare the smaller zoomlevel in 200% viewing size to the higher zoomlevel at 100% (i.e. same real life scale) it becomes very clear the there is some blurring going on, the 200% scaled zoom is much sharper than the 100% 1:1 screenshot.

Change History (6)

comment:1 by dieterdreist, 5 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Summary: JOSM add blur to aerial imageryJOSM adds blur to aerial imagery?

by dieterdreist, 5 years ago

by dieterdreist, 5 years ago

comment:2 by dieterdreist, 5 years ago

Description: modified (diff)

by dieterdreist, 5 years ago

comparison of 100% screenshot with a screenshot of a smaller scale in 200% with no fancy interpolation

comment:3 by dieterdreist, 5 years ago

Description: modified (diff)

I have now added a third screenshot (comparison) to make it easy to see. The 200% was made without interpolation (no lanczos, cubic or similar).

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