Bing Static Map Image type - static

May I know how to determine the output of Bing map static image? Previously it used to be in png but now it is in jpeg. May I know how to revert back to png format?
Example: Display the image with the link below:
http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/V1/Imagery/Map/Road/space%20needle,seattle?mapLayer=TrafficFlow&mapVersion=v1&key=BingKey
The image is in jpeg. How to make it to png? Thanks.

I know it's a while you posted this question, but as there is no answer yet, and I got here via Google I'll supply an answer anyway.
You can use the format / fmt parameter.
From: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff701724.aspx
One of the following image format values:
gif: Use GIF image format.
jpeg: Use JPEG image format. JPEG format is the default for Road, Aerial and AerialWithLabels imagery.
png: Use PNG image format. PNG is the default format for CollinsBart and OrdnanceSurvey imagery.
Examples:
format=jpeg
fmt=gif

I don't think you can request the image in a different format.
From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff701724.aspx :
This URL returns an image in one of
the following formats:
PNG (image/png)
JPEG (image/jpeg)
GIF (image/gif)
You cannot specify the output format
for the map image. The image type is
chosen based on parameters such as
imagerySet.
If you really want a PNG, you could make the request from a server-side script and then construct a PNG file programmatically before serving that back to the client (using PHP's imagepng function, for example)

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Can we extract thumbnails embedded in TIFF files with metadata-extractor?

I'm able to use ExifTool to extract an embedded thumbnail jpeg from within a TIFF. Is there a way that I can do this with drew noakes' metadata-extractor?
The source file is here:
https://corpora.tika.apache.org/base/docs/commoncrawl3/RD/RDAFESH5CBBJWWQZMZR4MGJIPYYEL7DN
The extracted thumbnail/preview image is .
I see the 5225 byte count in a metadata item (0x0202) with metadata-extractor, but I'm not able to get the bytes.
Thank you!

is base-64 just for jpeg or gif? how about a tiff? how can I convert string (which is part of XML and belong to a tiff file) to byte[]?

I wrote this in my application for displaying a TIFF Image :
byte[] b = convert.frombase64("ADFsf/s1ugdGHREHR/+/235gjhjhfcg/+kdhjgvkhfv/gcngcxsfdzsdf......=")
but It doesn't work. I received this message on loading the tiff :
run-time error '31037'
system error &H800401C2 (-2147221054)
I don't know exactly why?
When I save this tiff Image in this way :
file.writeallbytes("z.tiff",b);
I can open it , It means, It saved correctly.
now my problem is, I can`t display it in my application and image loading has got some problems.
thanks
Base-64 is certainly not only for JPEG or GIF. It can be used to represent any string of binary data (including plain text.) The base-64-encoded data you gave is malformed (as can be seen by writing the bytestream to a .tiff file), though.
My issue was done!
byte[] b = convert.frombase64("ADFsf/s1ugdGHREHR/+/235gjhjhfcg/+kdhjgvkhfv/gcngcxsfdzsdf......=")
method: convert.frombase64 -> can be used for any string of binary data
My problem was about loading a tiff file.
Firstly I must identify the pages in tiff image.
I split my tiff image to single pages by frame dimension method.

Zeppelin image display with base64 encoded content instead of HTML conversion

I'm currently working on some visualizations with Zeppelin and Seaborn, but the display mechanism automatically converts images to HTML and this is eating all my RAM immediately. (Too many data points).
Jupyter on the other hand handles it fairly easily, it looks like it just encodes the image content in a Base64 string.
Is it possible to mimic this behavior in Zeppelin? Or, better yet, configure it as the default image handling mechanism?
I don't know if I can override the default behavior, but this can be achieved manually with html magic. For example:
def show(graphics):
graphics.savefig("../tmp.png")
with open("../tmp.png", "rb") as image_file:
encoded_string = base64.b64encode(image_file.read())
return """%html <img src="data:image/png;base64,{}" />""".format(encoded_string.decode())
Returning the html string with base64 encoded png is much more efficient with my data, and I'll probably use this everywhere.

Saving image from Image object to isoStorage?

I've been googling around, and all the different answers has got me confused.
In my app I retrieve a contact picture, and put it in an Image object to be displayed to the user.
But I want to save the image to isostorage, and later retrieve it again.
How do I do this?
Can I use the Image.Source for anything?
You cannot get a filename or an ISO storage file.
The only use for ISO storage is to store a file of the bitmap and open a stream to that file to recreate a bitmap later.
The bitmap can then be assigned to the Image.Source.

Getting a CGImage out of a PDF file

I have a PDF file where every page is a (LZW) TIFF file. I know this because I created it. I want to be able to load it and save it as a bunch of TIFF files.
I can open the PDF file with CGPDFDocumentCreateWithURL, and get a page. I can even draw the page onto the screen.
What I WANT to do is draw the page into a bitmapContext, so that I can use CGBitmapContextCreateImage to get the image into a CGImageRef. However, in order to create a bitmap context, I need to know the size and resolution of the image. I can't seem to find out how to get either a CGPDFDocument or a CGPDFPage to tell me the resolution of the image object on that page.
Is there an easier way to do this that I'm not realizing?
thanks.
Ghostscript will work for you here :
gs -sDEVICE=tiff32nc -sOutputFile=foo-Page%d.tif foo.pdf
For 2 page document foo.pdf you should get :
foo-Page1.tif
foo-Page2.tif
From memory I think the output resolution from GS is that of the containing Page, not necessarily the resolution of the embedded file (unless these are the same to begin with).
If this is the case and you want to recover the image as it was originally res-wise, you can use iText (java) or iTextSharp(.net) to get to the image content stream (ie. Bytes) and write them out to disk in the format of your choice, after converting the content stream into a PdfImage iirc.
Hope the ghostscript option is applicable to save writing yet another utility...

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