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 […]
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- Wed, 5 Dec 2007 at 1:16 pm · Leszek Pawlowicz releases a new GUI program called LibgeoGUI for running listgeo and geotifcp commands — which includes better TFW support for writing to GeoTIFF than the GeoTIFF Tools GUI, as well as additional desired enhancements. (I’ll update the Geotiff tutorials here, to include this utility as it’s appropriately the best option.) · (0)
BigTIFF Development to Break 4GB
May 18th, 2007 · No Comments
Categories: Data · External News · Formats
Tags: bigtiff, bigtiff announcement
Geotiff & Photoshop, Part 4
March 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments
In Parts 1, 2, and 3 of this series — we discussed how software and utilities specific to working with geospatial imagery allow us to work-around the incompatibilities with popular image editors that do not support geospatial formats. However, there is a unique plugin that’s been designed for Adobe® Photoshop® to give users the ability […]
Categories: Formats · Software · Tutorials
Tags: geographic imager, geotiff, geotiff tutorial, Photoshop, photoshop plugins, plugins
Geotiff & Photoshop, Part 3
March 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we explored the common use and options for a set of utilities to handle Geotiff metadata tags. This allowed us to be able to output and store that data in text format for later retrieval, so that we could then be able to install it into […]
Categories: Formats · Software · Tutorials
Tags: geotiff, geotiff metadata, geotiff tutorial, Global Mapper
Geotiff & Photoshop, Part 2
March 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments
In the first tutorial, Geotiff & Photoshop, Part 1; we went through the steps of using the listgeo and geotifcp commandline utilities to dump the metadata of a Geotiff .tif file, and how to re-stuff the metadata contained within the output text file back into a .tif image saved out of Photoshop®. But what if […]
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Tags: geotifcp, geotifcp gui, geotiff, geotiff tutorial, libgeogui, listgeo, listgeo gui
Geotiff & Photoshop, Part 1
March 16th, 2007 · 8 Comments
The Geotiff (or GeoTIFF) format, is a TIFF image that has special geospatial metadata tags in the header. Unfortunately, most industry standard image processing, manipulation programs and readers do not natively support geospatial metadata in TIFF images. Such examples are Photoshop®, and other similar programs. What can we do then in order to work with […]
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Tags: commandline programs, geotifcp, geotiff, geotiff tutorial, listgeo, Photoshop, utilities