<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone! Thanks for joining this list to discuss cloud optimized geotiffs (COGs). We've already got 68 people on the list. I don't anticipate it will be a super active list, but I believe there's a few things to discuss to evolve COGs a bit. <div><br></div><div>I think I know a number of people on the list, but it'd be great if people could introduce themselves and share their interest in COG.</div><div><br></div><div>* I'm Chris (aka 'cholmes'), and I work 3 days a week at Planet, plus one day at Radiant.Earth, and both give me time to help advance COG. At Planet all our data is COG, and so we're interested in more tools that can consume it, and hopefully save everyone money by using COG to stream our data and not having to copy and store so much. Radiant has been supporting the COG standard, building tools like c<a href="http://www.cogeo.org/map/">og-map</a> and <a href="http://tiles.rdnt.io">tiles.rdnt.io</a>. Radiant is building a platform for NGO's / developing world, and sees it resting on an infrastructure of COG's</div><div><br></div><div>*Using the list*</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);float:none;display:inline">Feel free to post any questions, issues in working with COG's, best practices in working with the spec, or ideas of how to make COG's more useful. From the<span> </span></span><a href="https://medium.com/radiant-earth-insights/cloud-optimized-geotiff-birds-of-a-feather-at-foss4g-na-def26572ae1b" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">BoF at foss4g-<span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_577 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_spell gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_disable_anim_appear gmail-ContextualSpelling" id="gmail-577" style="display:inline;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:inherit;font-size:inherit"><span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_2055 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_spell gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_disable_anim_appear gmail-ContextualSpelling" id="gmail-2055" style="display:inline;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:inherit;font-size:inherit">na</span></span></a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);float:none;display:inline"> </span><span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_594 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_gramm gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_disable_anim_appear gmail-Grammar gmail-multiReplace" id="gmail-594" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_2057 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_gramm gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_disable_anim_appear gmail-Grammar gmail-multiReplace" id="gmail-2057" style="display:inline;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:inherit;font-size:inherit">there's</span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>a few topics to continue<span> </span></span><span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_609 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_gramm gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_disable_anim_appear gmail-Grammar gmail-only-ins gmail-doubleReplace gmail-replaceWithoutSep" id="gmail-609" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-sty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