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BigTIFF Proposal to Circumvent GeoTIFF Format Limitations

posted by Satri on Friday December 22, @11:06AM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the how-easy-can-you-push-new-data-formats? dept.

The GDAL-Dev mailing list discuss the BigTIFF Implementation Project, the new geocoded raster format would allow files over 4GB and is looking for sponsors. From the post: "The BigTIFF specification has been successfully implemented in one proprietary library from Aware Systems. However, the libtiff development team has not been able to find the several months of development time required to implement support for BigTIFF in the libtiff library (used by libgeotiff, GDAL, MapServer, etc)." Here's the full Franck Warmerdam's post.

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