What is the difference between .map and .jp2?
- Extension
- .map
- .jp2
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Other
- Raster Image
- Developer
- ColorgrafX
- Joint Photographic Experts Group
- Description
- This format is used as the color palette format for a variety of operating system image editors. It is used to store font templates in text and graphic editors. It allows you to change color intensity and transparency levels.
- 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/vnd.xworlds.colormap
- image/jp2
- Sample
- sample.jp2
- Wikipedia
- .jp2 on Wikipedia