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The tiles have the format https ://www.micro-pano.com/pearl/panos/STITCH_-_FULL_35x.tiles/l8/[line]/l8_[line]_[column].jpg

where lines start from 001 to 219 and columns from 001 to 192

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I don't understand why they chose to present these parts as .jpg. Why go through the effort of creating a 10B pixels masterpiece, when you compress it with a lossy format like jpg. Or am I missing something?

Also here's a working link for anyone to lazy to insert the numbers: https://www.micro-pano.com/pearl/panos/STITCH_-_FULL_35x.til...

I don't understand why they chose to present these parts as .jpg

I suspect that this page is primarily for getting publicity and 'buzz'. If you want the data for actual research I'm sure they have it in much better formats.

"Why go through the effort of creating a 10B pixels masterpiece, when you compress it with a lossy format like jpg. Or am I missing something?"

Remember you're looking at tilesets for the web browser viewer on a public site, not a copy of the raw data for research purposes.

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