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Change to Zoom Feature on FAA

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Recently FAA changed how the zoom feature works on images. It's great that they now let you select any region of the image to zoom into. However, they also changed how they handle very large images. If any image has a resolution greater than a 1:1 pixel match to the selected region they shrink the image area to fit the square. In other words, if you have a very high resolution image they will down sample the image so that it matches the standard pop-up. Your nice sharp image becomes blurry, even though they have a message in the box telling people that it is a "full resolution preview" while it is obvious it is not.

The old method allowed people to compare the resolution of an image by viewing an un-manipulated 1:1 pixel preview. Now if you have high resolution images they subsample your image to fit their box. It bothers me that they still insist on labeling it a "full resolution preview".