What is the difference between .jnx and .jp2?
- Extension
- .jnx
- .jp2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Garmin
- Joint Photographic Experts Group
- Description
- JNX is a raster image file format used by Garmin devices. It stores satellite map images seen through a BirdsEye subscription. This satellite maps are divided into smaller tiles for faster loading when displaying them. Hence, the name tile format.
- A JP2 file is a compressed bitmap image created using JPEG 2000 Core Coding. It incorporates a wavelet compression algorithm instead of Digital Cosine Transform (DCT) compression, which is used by standard JPEG images. JP2 files can be stored using lossy and lossless compression.
- MIME Type
- application/x-jnx
- image/jp2
- Sample
- sample.jp2
- Wikipedia
- .jp2 on Wikipedia