The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file, and where you've seen it (2015)
One thing I've wondered about are size savings for DEM tiles. Typically elevation values are encoded in RGB values giving a resolution down to fractions of an inch [1]. This seems like overkill. With an elevation range from 0 - 8848 meters (Mt everest), you can use just 2 bytes and get an accuracy down to .2 meters. That seems plenty for many uses. Does anybody know if there's a PNG16 format where you can reduce the file size by only using 2 bytes per pixel, instead of the typical 3-byte RGB or 4-byte RGBA?<p>[1] <a href="https://docs.mapbox.com/data/tilesets/guides/access-elevation-data/#decode-data" rel="nofollow">https://docs.mapbox.com/data/tilesets/guides/access-elevatio...</a>