Frank Warmerdam notes:
“As announced in this press release, four industry sponsors (WeoGeo, Safe, Leica Geosystems, and ESRI) have gotten together to fund development of BigTIFF support in libtiff. This extension adds support for GeoTIFF files much larger than 4GB! With libtiff used by most open source and commercial applications, there is reason to hope that BigTIFF support will be widespread in our industry within the next year or two (sooner for Open Source!).”
Other sources: SlashGeo Blog
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Following-up on this development with Frank, I asked how this might affect existing 32-bit platforms and if BigTIFF will be supported for non-64-bit machines. I received the following response:
“It will be supported on any semi-modern operating system
that provides 64-bit IO APIs and a 64-bit Int data-type. So Win32 and all modern Unix. But not WinCE.”
Roughly translated, “Don’t worry. For most, the software will just have to catch-up to include BigTIFF.”
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