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GeoTIFF is an interesting extension of TIFF that seems to serve a niche that other image formats cannot. It doesn't have the compression of say WebP or PNG, but
by ryandvm 5y ago
GeoTIFF is an interesting extension of TIFF that seems to serve a niche that other image formats cannot. It doesn't have the compression of say WebP or PNG, but the fact that it can have rich geographical metadata (projection, coordinates, etc.) makes it incredibly useful for GIS applications.
- kylebarron 5y agoGeoTIFF does have internal compression support. In fact you can compress your GeoTIFF internally using WebP [0]. [0]: https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/cog.html#general-creation-options https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/cog.html#general-creation-op...
- riedel 5y agoAlso DICOM for medical imaging is afaik based on TIFF
- sairahul82 5y agoDICOM is a container. It can contain any format including jpeg, tiff, png etc.
- yread 5y agotiff is also just a container it can contain lz compressed data or with some lossy compression